Identity can be an important driving force for educational performance. Immigrants and their children face the challenge of identifying with their host country's culture. This paper examines whether young immigrants and their children who identify stronger with the German culture are more likely...

Educational attainment, length of stay, differences in national background and language skills play an acknowledged important role for the integration of immigrants. But integration is also a social process, which suggests that psychological factors are relevant. This paper explores whether and...

This paper examines the relationship between social capital and adult learning. We test this association empirically using measures of various types of social capital and adult learning based on the German Socioeconomic Panel. We use predetermined measures of social capital to exclude social...

Der deutsche Leistungsbilanzsaldo erreichte zuletzt im historischen wie auch im internationalen Vergleich Höchstwerte. Saldenmechanisch treten dabei neben den Handelsströmen verstärkt die Primäreinkommensflüsse (Erwerbs- und Vermögenseinkommen) hervor, wobei die Einkommen aus...

Der deutsche Leistungsbilanzsaldo erreichte zuletzt im historischen wie auch im internationalen Vergleich Höchstwerte. Saldenmechanisch treten dabei neben den Handelsströmen verstärkt die Primäreinkommensflüsse (Erwerbs- und Vermögenseinkommen) hervor, wobei die Einkommen aus...

The German economy is at the brink of a recession. Gross domestic product is likely to decline again in the third quarter. Germany would thus formally be in a technical recession. However, the slowdown that began in 2018 has so far been a normalization of the previous boom period. At present,...

German GDP is expected to increase by 1.8 percent (2015), 2.1 percent (2016), and 2.3 percent (2017). Economic activity is driven by consumer spending that increases in the upcoming years by about 2 percent per year due to strong increases in real disposable income.

The economic upswing in Germany is set to continue despite heavy headwinds from abroad. We expect GDP to grow by 1.7 percent in 2017 and by 2.1 percent in 2018 after an increase of 1.9 percent in the current year. The slight deceleration in GDP growth in 2017 is due to temporary factors, in...

German GDP is expected to increase by 1.8 percent (2015), 2.2 percent (2016), and 2.3 percent (2017). With capacity utilization currently being at normal levels, Germany is on the road to overheating in the next years. GDP growth is backed by high growth rates in private consumption. In addition...

The German economy remains on a robust growth track. For the current year we expect GDP to increase by 1.8 percent. Next year, the rate of expansion is likely to accelerate to 2.1 percent. The private consump­tion boom continues, albeit not quite at the same rapid pace as in the past quarters,...