This study was prepared by Nina Czernich while she was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research.It was completed in December 2010 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. The study addresses the question whether the emergence of...

Income distribution may be related to fundamentals affecting economic growth and to labor market policies. Noting that inequality is affected by unemployment. This paper presents a model in which labor market policies affect unemployment which in turn affects inequality. The model also includes...

We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to the case of Germany, which has displayed a...

Die Beobachtung, Analyse und Prognose der Inflationsentwicklung ist nicht nur für Institutionen mit geldpolitischen Aufgaben, sondern für alle Wirtschaftsteilnehmer von besonderem Interesse. So haben fast alle Zentralbanken ein Preisziel als Endziel der Geldpolitik vorgegeben und einige...