Berthold Busch ·
IW-Analyse No. 137 ·
28 July 2020

The British go it alone in Europe

On 31 January 2020 the United Kingdom formally separated from the European Union. Having abandoned its role as an outsider in (western) European integration to join the then European Economic Community (EEC) in the early 1970s, the country proved to be a difficult member that was ultimately no longer prepared to support the further deepening of European integration.

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Matthias Diermeier / Judith Niehues / Joel Reinecke in Review of International Political Economy ·
External Publication ·
22 July 2020

Contradictory welfare conditioning: Differing welfare support for natives versus immigrants

The New Liberal Dilemma predicts that European universal welfare states lose support among natives due to large immigration numbers. This article contributes to the debate regarding the validity of the argument posited by the New Liberal Dilemma by examining the contradictory combination of support for a popular welfare state reform, Universal Basic Income (UBI), and conditionality for immigrants’ access to the welfare state in 20 European countries.

Pekka Sagner / Maximilian Stockhausen / Michael Voigtländer ·
IW-Analyse No. 136 ·
21 July 2020

Housing – the new social question?

The sharp rise in rents and housing prices in the 2010s, particularly in the major conurbations, has led some to assert that housing is “the social question of our time”.

Andrea Hammermann / Michael Voigtländer ·
IW-Trends No. 3 ·
19 July 2020

Office-based Employment in Germany: A Regional Analysis

With many regular surveys now discontinued or using outdated methodology, sound data on office- based employment in Germany are hard to come by. The present study aims to make a full national survey possible by developing an approach to measuring administrative employment based on analyses of the BIBB/BAuA Employment Survey, a telephone poll conducted every six years by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) and the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA).

Hubertus Bardt / Sonja Beer ·
IW-Trends No. 3 ·
10 July 2020

The Market Environment for German Exports in the Shadow of the Coronavirus Pandemic

The corona pandemic has led to a severe economic downturn worldwide, with the global economy about to experience its most dramatic contraction of the last seven decades.

Wido Geis-Thöne ·
IW-Report No. 30 ·
26 June 2020

Motivation to learn and pleasure in school

With the sharp reduction in classroom teaching in the context of the Corona pandemic, students' own initiative in practising the school material has become much more important for their competence development.

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