The social changes in Poland over the last two decades have had an impact on many dimensions of life, including on important elements of human capital, such as health and functional and instrumental daily activities. This article contains an overview of the available data and indicators on...

German fertility rates are far below the replacement level, meaning that its population is projected to shrink. This implies a threat to sustainable economic growth and the stability of the social security system. Thus, fertility behavior is of highest interest for policymakers. Economic...

This report employs individual-level register data to study the coverage and amounts of voluntary term life insurances, the monetary losses following from the death of a breadwinner, and the life insurance gap arising as the difference of the two. The data include information on the life...

Nach einer Infektion mit SARS-CoV-2 entwickeln laut Weltgesundheitsorganisation rund 10 Prozent der Erkrankten anhaltende oder neu auftretende gesundheitliche Beschwerden in Form von Long COVID. Wenn diese Beschwerden länger als zwölf Wochen anhalten, wird dieser Krankheitszustand als...

The article analyses recent developments in business investment for a large group of EU countries, using a broad set of analytical tools and data sources. We find that the assessment of whether or not investment is currently low varies across benchmarks and countries. At the euro area level and...

The aim of this report is to foster a better understanding of past trends in, and drivers of, productivity growth in the countries of the European Union (EU) and of the interplay between productivity and monetary policy. To this end, a group of experts from 15 national central banks and the...

This volume was prepared by Luise Röpke while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes three self-contained chapters about aspects of the integration of new...

The development human capital is now recognized as being the most important precondition of economic growth in modern times. It should be a priority in our socio-economic policy. However, recognition of this fact alone will not produce a qualitative leap in the development of education,...

In den letzten Monaten wurde insbesondere die langfristige Tragfähigkeit der Gesetzlichen Rente in Politik und Öffentlichkeit diskutiert. Dabei traten die anderen Sozialversicherungszweige in den Hintergrund. Insbesondere in der Gesetzlichen Kranken- und in der sozialen Pflegeversicherung sind...

Die Forderung nach einer einkommensabhängig finanzierten Bürgerversicherung klingt gerecht. Doch die zentralen Probleme der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV) vermag sie nicht zu lösen. Denn der seit Jahrzehnten überproportional starke Anstieg der Ausgaben kann weder durch eine...