Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...

A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the w est. However, every third deutschmark spent in the east has been...

Anders als im Steuerrecht existieren in der Sozialversicherung keine Kinderfreibeträge. In diesem Gutachten wird ihre Einführung - beschränkt auf die Beiträge zur gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung - untersucht. Abgeschätzt wurden zunächst die Erstrundeneffekte, also die Entlastungswirkungen...