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The article analyses recent developments in business investment for a large group of EU countries, using a broad set of analytical tools and data sources. We find that the assessment of whether or not investment is currently low varies across benchmarks and countries. At the euro area level and...
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The aim of this report is to foster a better understanding of past trends in, and drivers of, productivity growth in the countries of the European Union (EU) and of the interplay between productivity and monetary policy. To this end, a group of experts from 15 national central banks and the...
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This volume was prepared by Luise Röpke while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes three self-contained chapters about aspects of the integration of new...
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The global food price shock of 2006-2008 has particularly affected poorer strata of populations in several developing countries. In Egypt and some other countries it has put food subsidy schemes to the test. This paper develops two comparable computable general equilibrium models for Egypt and...
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Ukraine belongs to the group of countries which are known for the widespread phenomenon of subsistence and semi-subsistence farming. Individual farmers are not obliged to produce financial reports and their incomes belong to the category of unobservable incomes. When checking the eligibility for...
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The aim of this work is to present an in depth understanding of the conceptual framework of active ageing policies, which have been created and implemented in Poland. The discussion of active ageing in employment in Poland started relatively late. The first discussions on the unfavourable...
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With the population ageing the development of sustainable long-term care institutions is of great importance in many European countries. In Poland, currently dominant, traditional and family based care will become insufficient with increasing cohorts of older people. Presented paper discusses...
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Immer mehr Menschen nehmen die Sozialhilfeleistung "Hilfe zur Pflege" in Anspruch. Allerdings bedeutet das nicht automatisch, dass Pflegebedürftigkeit heute häufiger in die Bedürftigkeit führt als noch vor zehn Jahren. Denn auch die Pflegefallzahlen insgesamt sind in den letzten Jahren immer...
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Die Anzahl der Pflegebedürftigen, die auf Hilfe zur Pflege angewiesen sind, steigt immer weiter. Auch wenn dies nicht zwangsläufig bedeutet, dass Pflegebedürftigkeit zunehmend in die Bedürftigkeit führt - denn insgesamt steigt auch die Zahl der Pflegebedürftigen - ist dies doch eine...
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