The German government plans to introduce a minimum wage from 2015. This must be understood as a response to the decline in collective bargaining coverage and the marked increase in employment in the low-wage sector. The authors discuss how many workers are affected by this new regulation and...

Looking around the world, one realizes that national minimum wages are not uncommon. Yet it is still very difficult to estimate what effects a minimum wage might have in Germany. This is not just a question of how high the minimum wage should be — its impacts would also depend on many details...

In Germany in the last decade, corporate incomes have increased much more sharply than private household incomes. At the same time, the inequality of household incomes has increased. High-income households have profited particularly from investment income and self-employment. The income gap has...

An die Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft in Deutschland werden auch große wirtschaftliche Erwartungen geknüpft. In Anbetracht des bisher vor allem vom Export getragenen konjunkturellen Aufschwungs mehren sich in letzter Zeit Stimmen, dass von dem Sportereignis - auch was die Stimmung anbelangt -...

Über die Nutzung von PC und Internet gibt es zwar eine ganze Reihe von aktuellen Umfragen; diese Erhebungen erlauben jedoch zumeist keine tief gegliederten Analysen zu den sozio-ökonomischen Determinanten der Nutzung dieser neuen Technologien. Mit dem vom DIW Berlin erhobenen...