In the summer and at the end of the year, the Ifo Institute publishes its detailed economic forecasts for Germany. In the spring and the autumn, it participates in the Joint Economic Forecast of the six German economic research institutes. - Economic forecasts are a means to assess future...

The Ifo Institute has worked out a detailed proposal to reform the system of welfare benefits and made estimates regarding the consequences for employment, distribution of income and fiscal costs. The Ifo proposal aims at making the German labour market functional again without lowering the...

Redesigning the Welfare State argues that the current high level of unemployment in Germany not only creates a major challenge for the German welfare state, but is to a good extent caused by the way the country's welfare system is designed. - The authors review the public debate on labour market...