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Why Germany has such a weak growth performance

Siebert, Horst - 2003

Germany has had an extremely low growth performance since 1995. The paper looks at the long-run reasons for this loss … whether Germany belongs to a new category of economies, the NDCs, the Newly Declining Countries. …

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Consequences of rising income inequality: a comment

Siebert, Horst - 1998

Rising income inequality is an anglo Saxon problem. For most of the other OECD countries, earnings dispersion is rather persistent. Vertical mobility is to be taken into account. The paper also looks at the relationship of income inequality, growth and employment. It elaborates the point that...

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The stalling engine in Wirtschaftswunder-Land: Germany's economic policy challenges

Siebert, Horst - 2002

some of the economic policy challenges that Germany faces. Being an optimist by nature, I would paint a rosy picture …

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Technology and economic performance in the German economy

Siebert, Horst; Stolpe, Michael - 2001

Germany remains Europe's largest and most diversified source of new technology, but still lags in the fastest growing … areas of today's high technology. After World War II, West-German technology policy sought to rebuild the institutions which … had supported Germany's leadership in the high-tech industries of the early twentieth century - automobiles, machinery …

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Old Europe's social model: A reason of low growth? The case of Germany

Siebert, Horst - 2006

This paper discusses the goal conflict between social protection and economic growth as well as employment. Taking the German economy as an example for the large continental economies of Old Europe, it analyzes twenty mechanisms that affect the fundamentals of the economy negatively and imply...

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