Die deutsche Gesellschaft altert. Aus der sich wandelnden Relation von jüngeren und älteren Menschen sollte nicht unvermittelt auf Belastungen durch den demografischen Wandel geschlossen werden. Stattdessen muss das Verhältnis von Erwerbstätigen zu Bezieherinnen und Beziehern von...

The article examines the macroeconomic effects of the recent labour market reforms in Germany. The reforms increased the downward pressure on wages and led to rising income inequality. Many German economists welcomed this effect, because they consider lower wages and higher wage dispersion major...

The German unemployment rate shows strong signs if non-stationarity over the course of the previous decades. This is in line with an insider-outsider model under full hysteresis. We applied a "theory-guided view" to the data using the structural VAR model as developed by Balmaseda, Dolado and...

The German unemployment rate shows strong signs if non-stationarity over the course of the previous decades. This is in line with an insider-outsider model under full hysteresis. We applied a "theory-guided view" to the data using the structural VAR model as developed by Balmaseda, Dolado and...