IW-Reports

IW-Reports are scientific reports with methodological, empirical or regulatory backgrounds and offer space for statements of the scientists in policy advice. They appear exclusively online.

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Manuel Fritsch / Alevtina Krotova ·
IW-Report Nr. 9 ·
11 March 2020

How data-driven are business models in Germany?

Data is rapidly becoming one of the most important business resources. A growing number of companies address the question of how they can use data profitably in their business.

Stable conditions despite growing social challenges

Maximilian Stockhausen / Mariano Calderón ·
IW-Report Nr. 8 ·
8 March 2020

IW Distribution Report 2020

How are income and wealth distributed in Germany? There is often no simple answer to this seemingly simple question, sometimes not even a clear one. Various social and structural changes have very different effects on the distribution of income and wealth: an ageing population, a tendency to live alone or an increasing share of the population with migration background along with economic changes amidst a deepening globalization and digitalization.

Christoph Metzler / Anika Jansen / Andrea Kurtenacker ·
IW-Report Nr. 7 ·
25 February 2020

Inclusion of people with disabilities within enterprises in times of digitisation

Digitisation has a positive influence on the inclusion of people with disabilities in German companies. Companies that already rely heavily on digitisation today employ more people with disabilities than companies that currently do not have any reference to digitisation.

Martin Beznoska ·
IW-Report Nr. 6 ·
12 February 2020

The distribution of taxes, social contributions and transfer income of private households

The distributional effects of the tax and benefit system in Germany are increasingly being discussed in the political debate. The questions of who bears the tax burden and finances government tasks to what extent and who benefits from redistribution are decisive in the assessment of economic policy measures.

Wido Geis-Thöne ·
IW-Report Nr. 5 ·
11 February 2020

All-day childcare for primary school children

The institutional care of children of primary school age in Germany takes places in the interplay of compulsory school attendance, further (care) offers of the schools as well as state and state-sponsored extra-curricular care offers, such as after-school care.

Hagen Lesch / Christian Kestermann ·
IW-Report Nr. 4 ·
5 February 2020

Conflict resolution through conciliation and mediation

In the second half of 2019, collective bargaining was conducted in only five of the 19 sectors included in the German Economic Institut‘s wage monitoring system: In the chemical industry, construction, cleaning services, aviation and hospitals.

Tobias Hentze ·
IW-Report Nr. 3 ·
4 February 2020

Double taxation of statutory pensions

The move to a subsequent taxation of statutory pensions will be completed in 2040 according to current tax law. By then, the taxable portion of the statutory pension will increase to 100 percent for new pensioners, while the tax deductibility of the pension contributions will increase to 100 percent by 2025.

Barbara Engels / Marc Scheufen ·
IW-Report Nr. 1 ·
15 January 2020

Competition Effects of the General Data Protection Regulation

The European General Data Regulation (GDPR) increases the level of protection of personal data and standardises it throughout Europe.

Sonja Beer / Jürgen Matthes / Christian Rusche ·
IW-Report Nr. 44 ·
19 December 2019

Decoupling Chimerica: Consequences for the European Union

The People’s Republic of China experienced a tremendous economic development within the last four decades. The increased economic power and political weight of China are challenging the USA and EU. Furthermore, the strategies used by China for its own development, e.g. broad-based industry policy with distortive subsidization, forced technology transfer or investment restrictions, are perceived as unfair, especially in the US, but to a large extent also in the EU.

Jürgen Matthes ·
IW-Report Nr. 43 ·
18 December 2019

The German Economy's Dependence on China for Foreign Trade

In the debate on whether Germany should position itself more robustly vis-à-vis China, it is sometimes pointed out that the German economy and above all individual German DAX companies are heavily dependent on China. Against this background, this report analyses the economic dependence of Germany (as a production location) on China in foreign trade.