In 2014, the German economy is expected to grow by 1.8 %. Next year, GDP will increase by 2.1 %. The output gap will decline significantly this year, but will only be fully closed in the coming year. Inflation will remain low in this environment. The upward momentum of the global economy...

The German economy is bound to accelerate in the quarters ahead, following the slump at the end of last year. Year-on-year, real gross domestic product will increase by 0.7 percent, matching last year's rise. As production will gain momentum in the course of 2013, the growth rate for 2014 will...

In the fall of 2013, DIW Berlin presented a study on minimum wages which was based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study for 2011. The data for 2012 have since become available. As expected, in terms of structures for employees with gross hourly earnings of less than 8.50 euros, i.e.,...

The German economy has recently lost momentum but is anticipated to accelerate markedly in the course of 2013. On annual average, real GDP will increase by 0.9 percent; the corresponding figure for 2012 is expected to be 0.8 percent. During the course of 2013, however, expansion will accelerate...

In the past decade, wages in Germany have risen more slowly than economic performance. Year on year, average wages remained approximately 0.3 percent behind what was available in redistribution volume, given the development of production. Although there are also sectors with low wages, in which...

Die deutsche Wirtschaft steht vor einem kräftigen Aufschwung. Zwar kann der Zuwachs im Jahresdurchschnitt 2012 mit 1,0 Prozent nicht an die hohen Raten der vergangenen beiden Jahre anknüpfen. Dies liegt jedoch daran, dass sich Investoren und Konsumenten aufgrund der Krise im Euroraum mit ihren...

Between 2001 and 2011, the number of retirement-aged people in Germany still in employment approximately doubled to almost 760,000. The over-65 age group rose faster than any other in the workforce during this period. DIW Berlin has examined the employment situation of older workers in Germany...

Over the past two decades, the number of self-employed in Germany has risen dramatically. This is almost exclusively due to an increasing number of self-employed persons without employees (solo entrepreneurs). There has been a particularly marked escalation in the number of self-employed women....

Auch 1991 war die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in den beiden Teilen Berlins sehr unterschiedlich. Im Osten der Stadt wurde das Bild von der Umstellungskrise geprägt, Produktion und Beschäftigung gingen weiter zurück. Im Westteil nahmen Leistung und Beschäftigung abermals deutlich zu, die...