"The strong external demand, combined with favourable supply conditions in Germany, has set in motion an economic recovery. There is reason to believe that the upswing will become stronger and more widespread in 1998. For this reason in the middle Variant II of the IAB alterna-tive calculations...

Die Entwicklungen am Arbeitsmarkt haben sich in Folge des Zusammenwachsens beider Teile Deutschlands in grundsätzlicher Weise verändert: Ost-West-Wanderungen bis in jüngste Zeit, zunehmende Pendlerbewegungen, zusätzliche wirtschaftliche Impulse für das alte Bundesgebiet durch die starke...

"The prospects for economic development in 1999 are not bad. There is, however, an unusually large degree of uncertainty concerning the future development of the economy and the labour market. In view of this we are basing our alternative projection on a broad range of variation in the...

The economic dynamics deteriorated considerably throughout the world in 2001. The German economy, too, was seized by this. The dampening effects of the world economy were intensified by the consequences of the animal epidemics and a rather restrictive monetary policy. In addition economic growth...