Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the establishment of causality. By contrast to the natural sciences, the objects of our scientific...

Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained from a structural labor demand model, the empirical...

Demographic change inevitably shifts the balance between contributors and recipients in the pension system. Moreover, in the German pension system benefit levels are closely linked to the current state of economic prosperity. Therefore, in the coming decades stabilisation of old-age security...

Im Juni 2015 haben die Bundesregierung und der Sachverständigenrat gemeinsam die Ziele und Instrumente des Stabilitäts- und Wachstumsgesetzes überprüft. Insbesondere lag ein Hauptaugenmerk darauf, ob das Gesetz um Ziele zu Aspekten der Nachhaltigkeit ergänzt werden könnte. Das eindeutige...