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Opportunities for growth and consolidation
  • Michael Hüther / Markos Jung / Thomas Obst ·
  • IW-Policy Paper No. 10 ·
  • 10 May 2021

Workforce potential of the German economy: Opportunities for growth and consolidation

Germany’s labour market faces substantial challenges caused by demographic change in the next decade. Looking back over the last 10 years we observe a key role regarding of a successful labour market integration leading to higher employment rates and fostering economic growth.

  • Michael Hüther / Markos Jung / Thomas Obst ·
  • IW-Policy Paper No. 10 ·
  • 10 May 2021

Opportunities for growth and consolidation

Germany’s labour market faces substantial challenges caused by demographic change in the next decade. Looking back over the last 10 years we observe a key role regarding of a successful labour market integration leading to higher employment rates and fostering economic growth.

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Findings from the IW Personnel Panel
  • Oliver Stettes ·
  • IW-Report No. 15 ·
  • 10 May 2021

Performance Management in the Covid 19 Crisis: Findings from the IW Personnel Panel

Empirical evidence based on the IW Personnel Survey reveals that around half of the companies in Germany reported negative economic effects of the Covid-19-pandemic.

Business models and vocational training in the digital transformation
  • Hans-Peter Klös / Rahild Neuburger / Thomas Sattelberger / Dirk Werner ·
  • IW-Policy Paper No. 9 ·
  • 7 May 2021

Business models and vocational training in the digital transformation

The technology driven development of business models is of great importance for the future of vocational education and training. Digital competencies - such as digital literacy, interaction, collaboration, and learning - are an indispensable part of vocational training for a modern working world to qualify future skilled workers for their professional life.

How to Unlock the WTO Blockage and Why China Holds the Key
  • Jürgen Matthes in CESifo Forum ·
  • External Publication ·
  • 30 April 2021

How to Unlock the WTO Blockage and Why China Holds the Key

The WTO has been getting into an ever-deeper crisis in recent years, even though it had been a success story at its outset in 1995 and for several years afterward, IW expert Jürgen Matthes lines out.

Trade Club for Climate
  • Galina Kolev / Hubertus Bardt ·
  • IW-Policy Paper No. 8 ·
  • 26 April 2021

Trade Club for Climate

A trade policy approach to climate challenges can give a positive impetus to WTO reform based on the commitment to a common target and reinforced by the urgency of that target.

The Impact of the Corona Pandemic Compared with Earlier Economic Crises
  • Hubertus Bardt / Michael Grömling ·
  • IW-Trends No. 2 ·
  • 20 April 2021

The Impact of the Corona Pandemic Compared with Earlier Economic Crises

The current economic crisis has become a crisis of consumption and has taken on more extreme dimensions than that caused by the global financial market upheavals of 2008/2009. In the 15 years preceding the outbreak of the Corona pandemic in Germany, private consumption grew at a rate similar to that in the 1990s.

Simulation calculations for the debt ratio
  • Martin Beznoska / Tobias Hentze / Michael Hüther ·
  • IW-Policy Paper No. 7 ·
  • 13 April 2021

On the handling of the Corona Debt: Simulation calculations for the debt ratio

During the pandemic, the German government's debt level is expected to grow to EUR 2.7 trillion in 2022. The debt ratio will peak at 75 percent by the end of this year. Of the 650 billion additional national debt during the Corona crisis, around 480 billion euros can be classified as Corona-related.

Low for Long or Higher for Longer?
  • Markus Demary / Michael Hüther ·
  • IW-Report No. 12 ·
  • 8 April 2021

Global Inflation: Low for Long or Higher for Longer?

Inflation has started to increase, and the return of inflation comes at a time in which economies begin to recover from pandemic-induced and lockdown-induced recessions. This raises questions about how much and how long inflation will go up as well as about whether central banks have to step-up against inflation at the cost of slowing down the economic recovery. Has “low for long” turned into “higher for longer”?

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