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Plenty of people in Germany, including politicians and researchers, believe that gross domestic product (GDP) is an …
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Germany. Particularly in the wake of the global economic and financial crisis that began in 2008, trade with China has been an … important driver of economic growth in Germany as German industry benefited from the increase in Chinese import demand more than …
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were invested in Germany alone in renewable energy facilities. Altogether, renewable energy sources created 35.5 billion …
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As part of the energy transition process, the German government has set far-reaching energy efficiency targets, including doubling the annual rate of building renovation to upgrade energy performance from one to two percent. DIW Berlin has estimated the additional energy-savings-related...
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short term, the further expansion of electricity generation from fluctuating renewables will be possible in Germany without …
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). Germany is likewise receiving an above-average number of asylum seekers: Assuming a uniform distribution across all EU … countries, Germany receives three times as many in relation to its total population, and twice as many in relation to its … States to agree on a more uniform - and thus more fair - distribution of the refugees. In Germany, 37 percent of asylum …
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percent of executive board members of the 100 largest banks in Germany. The corresponding figure for the 59 largest insurance …, which was enacted in Germany in May 2015. …
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Germany's large corporations still have a long way to go before achieving balanced representation of men and women on … their boards. At the end of 2015, the share of women on the executive boards of the top 200 companies in Germany was a good … present study. Germany’s companies still have a long and difficult path ahead of them in order to achieve increased …
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This study quantifies gender-specific differences in retirement income in Germany, Denmark, and France. We show that … the "gender pension gap" in Germany is higher than in France and much higher than in Denmark. This ranking is similar to … the ranking in the gender pay gap, where Germany has also the highest gender difference. The authors also investigate …
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Institute for Employment Research (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …. According to the survey, most refugees did not speak any German upon their arrival in Germany-but with time, they approximated … the German language proficiency of Germany's non-refugee migrants. Positively correlated factors include the refugee's age …
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