"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...

"Das Betriebsgründungsgeschehen in den neuen Bundesländern 1991 bis 1992 wird unter branchenspezifischen und regionalen Aspekten untersucht. Dazu wird neben der Zahl der Gründungen auch die Zahl der überlebenden Gründungen und das Wachstum dieser Betriebe betrachtet. Der Zahl der...

"The transformation process in the new Federal states is often subdivided into a 'transformation from above' (the splitting up of the old enterprises) and a 'transformation from below' (establishment of new enterprises). In this article these two partial processes are considered both with regard...

"Since 1993 the IAB has maintained a representative information system of the demand side of the labour market in the form of its establishment panel for western Germany. With the inclusion of the new federal states in 1996, the formation of the IAB panel was completed in the whole of Germany....

"Das Betriebsgründungsgeschehen in den neuen Bundesländern 1991 bis 1992 wird unter branchenspezifischen und regionalen Aspekten untersucht. Dazu wird neben der Zahl der Gründungen auch die Zahl der überlebenden Gründungen und das Wachstum dieser Betriebe betrachtet. Der Zahl der...

"The strong external demand, combined with favourable supply conditions in Germany, has set in motion an economic recovery. There is reason to believe that the upswing will become stronger and more widespread in 1998. For this reason in the middle Variant II of the IAB alterna-tive calculations...

"On l.10.l995, 2249 completely privatised companies (26.4% of the total number) with 362 000 employees (38.1%) reported an extrapolated total employment of 950 000. By the end of 1995there were expected to be 57 000 job losses, in 1996 a further 53 000 and in 1997 another 14 000 jobs were...

"The transformation process in the new Federal states is often subdivided into a 'transformation from above' (the splitting up of the old enterprises) and a 'transformation from below' (establishment of new enterprises). In this article these two partial processes are considered both with regard...