Inheritances have been growing as a share of national income in the UK since the 1970s. This trend looks set to continue as generations at older ages hold more wealth than their immediate predecessors but younger generations have no higher incomes than the generations born just before them. What...

The share of private consumption in gross domestic product is significant; therefore, private consumption has a great influence on economic growth, which makes it a major concept in economics. The purpose of the paper is to estimate and evaluate different forecasting models for private...

The three South Caucasus economies - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia - have performed relatively well since the COVID-19 pandemic, benefiting from certain spillovers of Russia's war against Ukraine. The oil importers Armenia and Georgia achieved double-digit GDP growth in 2022 - 12.6% and 11.0%,...

This report examines how household incomes were changing in the UK up to the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how other measures of household living standards have changed over the course of the pandemic. In particular, we use the latest official data covering years up to 2019-20 to provide a...

The present study reports on results emerging from the research project «Fertility and Prosperity: Links between Demography and Growth» that was commissioned to the Ifo Institute by Deutscher Arbeitskreis für Familienhilfe e.V., Kirchzarten, in December 2003. The study adopts a two-stage...

This report examines how living standards - most commonly measured by households' incomes - were changing in the UK up to approximately the eve of the current COVID-19 crisis, using the latest official household income data covering years up to 2018-19. We particularly focus on how this differed...

Im Juni 2010 haben sich die Europäischen Regierungen auf eine neue Wachstumsstrategie bis zum Jahr 2020 geeinigt, die erstmals und ausdrücklich einen Schwerpunkt zur Verringerung von Armut und sozialer Ausgrenzung mit konkreten Zielgrößen formuliert. Die österreichische Bundesregierung hat...

Die vorliegende Publikation widmet sich erstmals ausführlich Gefährdungslagen sozialer Ausgrenzung im Sinne der Europa-2020-Strategie. In der Europa-2020-Strategie für ein intelligentes, nachhaltiges und integratives Wachstum wurde von den Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union im Jahr 2010...