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Collective bargaining autonomy in a crisis of legitimacy?
In Germany, the employers recognised the trade unions as the appointed representatives of the employees in November 1918.
Hagen Lesch / Helena Bach / Sandra Vogel IW
Green Nudging – a key against littering?
The demand for cleanliness in cities is increasing: "Littering" - the illegal littering of public spaces - does not only cause costs for the environment and society, but also has significant financial consequences through increased cleaning costs.
Jennifer Potthoff IW
Nothing to do with data?: Data utilisation potentials for companies
If companies want to survive on the market in the long term, they cannot avoid the topic of data.
Barbara Engels IW
Industrial policy at the turn of the times
The current debate on industrial policy vacillates between the extreme positions of an orthodoxy of rejecting state action and a naive belief in the state's ability to control structural change.
Michael Hüther / Hubertus Bardt / Cornelius Bähr / Jürgen Matthes / Klaus-Heiner Röhl / Christian Rusche / Thilo Schaefer IW
The future of natural gas: how much more do we need and what comes next?
Natural gas has become increasingly important for Germany in the last three decades, be it for heating buildings, providing process heat in industry or generating electricity. At the same time, the dependence on imports of natural gas has risen to almost 100 percent in recent decades, with most of the imports coming from Russia.
Michael Hüther / Malte Küper / Thilo Schaefer IW
An assessment of structural reforms in the stressed euro area countries and their relevance for growth and for EMU
Substantial structural reforms have been taken on labour and product markets by stressed euro area countries since 2008 – more than is generally acknowledged in Germany.
Jürgen Matthes IW
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