"The prospects for Germany's economic development are good at present. Nonetheless there are also uncertainties and downsides. For this reason our labour market forecast for 2000 is based on a range of assumptions for the actual economic growth. The overview includes the basic data of these...

"The economic collapse in eastern Germany caused a previously unprecedented unemployment in the new Federal states, which affected eastern German women overproportionally. Whereas in the times of the German Democratic Republic it was unproblematic for women to combine job and family, it could be...

"Following the economic collapse in eastern Germany, in addition to the high level of unemployment, a hidden labour force of a considerable size has also developed in the new Länder. The IAB estimates the hidden labour force in the new Länder for 1997 to be more than 800,000 people. This...

"Die längerfristigen Zukunftsperspektiven des gesamtdeutschen Erwerbspersonenpotentials ergeben sich als Zusammenfassung aus den einschlägigen neuen Modellrechnungen für das bisherigen Bundesgebiet und den ersten Überlegungen zur zukünftigen Entwicklung des ostdeutschen...

"The number of western German women who wish to work has increased continuously since the mid-sixties irrespective of the economic development. In eastern Germany it remained at a high level in spite of continuously high unemployment. With the crisis on the labour market in the early nineties,...

"The number of western German women who wish to work has increased continuously since the mid-sixties irrespective of the economic development. In eastern Germany it remained at a high level in spite of continuously high unemployment. With the crisis on the labour market in the early nineties,...

"Die längerfristigen Zukunftsperspektiven des gesamtdeutschen Erwerbspersonenpotentials ergeben sich als Zusammenfassung aus den einschlägigen neuen Modellrechnungen für das bisherigen Bundesgebiet und den ersten Überlegungen zur zukünftigen Entwicklung des ostdeutschen...

"In 2000 Germany experienced a strong economic upswing. The engine driving this development was the vigorous foreign demand. In total a 3.1% growth in real gross domestic product could be recorded. The number of employed persons rose in the annual average for 2000 by almost 600,000. Marginal...

"After looking back at the development of the economy and the labour market over the past few years, a prediction regarding the trends in 2003 and 2004 is made based on alternative assumptions of overall economic growth. After this, selected topics are dealt with in more detail (foreign trade...

The economic dynamics deteriorated considerably throughout the world in 2001. The German economy, too, was seized by this. The dampening effects of the world economy were intensified by the consequences of the animal epidemics and a rather restrictive monetary policy. In addition economic growth...