Vor dem Hintergrund der anhaltenden Wachstumsschwäche der deutschen Wirtschaft und einer alternden Bevölkerung ist es geboten, das bisher nicht genutzte Arbeitskräftepotenzial stärker in den Blick zu nehmen. Wir simulieren verschiedene Szenarien der Aktivierung der Nichterwerbstätigen unter...

In 2013, the German Council of Economic Experts advised the then future German government to pursue a decisively marketoriented economic reform agenda in the fields of labour market and pension policy, tax policy and climate policy. Yet, policy makers have ignored this advice, basically...

Inspired by the literature on social polarisation and residential segregation we draw on a probabilistic approach to pursue the evolution of household location preferences. Using microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the period 1984-2020 we demonstrate that structural...

The medium-term prospects for the German economy give little cause for optimism. In addition, demographic change will intensify in the current decade. A brightening of growth prospects can therefore only materialise with stronger investment and greater innovation momentum. However, it will...

To synergise civil and military research, their separation should be abandoned and the so-called ‘civil clauses’ still enshrined in the statutes of many German universities should be reconsidered. Together with its European partners, the German government should establish joint development...

Die deutsche Wirtschaft steckt weiterhin in einer strukturellen Krise. Zwar hat das Bruttoinlandsprodukt im ersten Quartal um 0,4% zugenommen, dennoch bleiben die Belastungen wie geopolitische Spannungen, neue Zollbarrieren sowie ein wachsender Reformdruck bestehen. Anstatt auf Impulse durch...