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IW-Report No. 34 12. August 2024

The EU and money: Who pays, who gets?

Berthold Busch / Björn Kauder / Samina Sultan

The German net position fell slightly in 2023 compared to the previous year, from 19.7 billion euros to 17.4 billion euros. However, it is still significantly higher than in the pre-Brexit period.

IW-Report No. 33 9. August 2024

IW labor market forecast 2027: Immigration can compensate for ageing

Alexander Burstedde / Jurek Tiedemann

This study is the annual update of the IW labor market extrapolation with data up to 2022. The methodology is described in detail by Burstedde (2023). The update shows how employment and skilled labor shortages could develop during the next five years if the empirical trends of the last seven years were to continue. This is different from a forecast.

IW-Trends No. 3 8. August 2024

Areas of Conflict and the Role of Works Councils in the Digital and Green Transitions

Oliver Stettes

Digitalisation processes and investments in environmental and climate protection are often accompanied by the introduction of new procedures and working methods.

IW-Policy Paper No. 5 23. July 2024

Trump or Harris or ...? What Europe must prepare for

Hubertus Bardt

A few months before the presidential election in the USA, Donald Trump has a good chance of being re-elected. On the Democratic side, the incumbent president has withdrawn his candidacy after a long period of hesitation, while Vice President Kamala Harris is highly likely to run for the Democrats. This means very different policy scenarios for economic policy and international policy issues that are particularly relevant for Europe.

Expertise 1. July 2024

Compendium 5.5: CO2 Regulation of Road Transport in Europe

Thomas Puls

With the Compendium CO2 Regulation in Europe, the IW has been providing the interested public with a comprehensive collection of data on the development of CO2 emissions from passenger car traffic in the European Union, as well as on the applicable regulatory framework, since 2015.

IW-Trends No. 2 14. June 2024

Data Utilisation and Data Sharing: The Potential and the Reality in German Companies

Dennis Bakalis / Jan Büchel

Companies that store their data extensively in digital form, process it in a structured manner and use it in a variety of ways can become particularly efficient members of the data economy.

IW-Report No. 30 11. June 2024

Competitive pressure from China for German companies

Jürgen Matthes / Edgar Schmitz

A firm survey conducted in March/April 2024 as part of the IW-Zukunftspanel among around 900 German companies from the manufacturing and industrial services sectors shows that around 350 of the companies surveyed have Chinese competitors in their markets.

IW-Analyse No. 156 10. June 2024

The Political Economy of Pension Reform

Jochen Pimpertz / Ruth Maria Schüler

As the German population ages, the country’s statutory pension scheme, which is financed on a pay-as-you-go basis, requires higher and higher contributions while the level of pensions is falling.

IW-Report No. 29 7. June 2024

Europe votes: Who cares and why?

Matthias Diermeier / Judith Niehues / Samina Sultan

This study, based on the IW-People Survey 2024, shows that around 62% of Germans consider the election of the European Parliament to be important. This is the result of around 5,200 respondents. The proportion is therefore roughly as high as the voter turnout in 2019.

IW-Policy Paper No. 3 4. June 2024

Strategic autonomy and economic security achieve efficiently

Jürgen Matthes

In this study an analytical scheme is developed to operationalise the objective of strategic autonomy in a cost-effective way.

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