ECONIS Select Archive –
Economic Policy Issues

• Hartz-IV and subsistence minimum in Germany
  04/2010
• Abwanderung von qualifizierten Fachkräften
  03/2010
• Moderater Tarifabschluss im Öffentlichen Dienst
  03/2010
• Minimum wages in Germany
  02/2010
• VAT reduction for the german hotel business
  02/2010
• Demerger act in Germany
  02/2010
• Add-on health insurance premium and co-payment in the German health sector
  02/2010
• The development of municipal budgets in Germany
  01/2010
• Prospect for the German economy 2010
  01/2010
• Deficit of the German Social Unemployment Insurance
  01/2010
• Hochschulstreik in Deutschland
  12/2009
• Short-time compensation in Germany
  12/2009
• Subsidies for industry and enterprises in Germany
  12/2009
• "Betreuungsgeld" - A new family allowance program in Germany
  11/2009
• Lifelong learning
  11/2009
• Supply-side economics in Germany
  11/2009
• Long term care insurance in Germany - Pay as You Go or fully funded system
  11/2009
• The new Federal Government of Germany: Balance and perspectives of the social policy
  11/2009
• The new Federal Government of Germany: Balance and perspectives of the fiscal and tax policy
  11/2009
• Road tolls for passenger cars in Germany!?
  11/2009
• East Germany - 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
  11/2009
• Economic stimulus package in Germany>
  10/2009
• Tuitions fees in Germany
  10/2009
• More money?! - The welfare payments for children ("Hartz-IV") in Germany
  10/2009
• East-Germany ten years after German Unity - regional aspects
  10/2009
• Carstensen vs. Stegner: The state election in Schleswig-Holstein 2009
  09/2009
• Parliamentary elections 2009 - The transformation of the party system in Germany
  09/2009
• Public debt and the Financial crisis. The medium-term fiscal consolidation in Germany
  09/2009
• The Riester-Rente - A cost-benefit analysis
  09/2009
• Merkel vs. Steinmeier part two: Minimum wages in Germany
  09/2009
• Merkel vs. Steinmeier part one: The social market economy
  09/2009
• Konjunkturpaket II: Built-in flexibility and discretionary policy in Germany
  09/2009
• Wealth in Germany
  09/2009
• Prolongation of early retirement regulation in Germany
  08/2009
• The wage drift in Germany
  08/2009
• Full employment in Germany!? - The "Deutschland-Plan" between wish and reality
  08/2009
• Old-age pension with 69?! - The age of retirement in the public pension system in Germany
  07/2009
• VAT increase in Germany: No sustainable fiscal consolidation.
  07/2009
• Population ageing and economic divergence: The case of East Germany
  06/2009
• Value-added tax increase - Fiscal consolidation and financial crisis in Germany
  06/2009
• Taxing aganist Tax Evasion
  06/2009
• Schuldenschranke - Nulldefizit: Ein Ausweg aus der Schuldenfalle!?
  06/2009
• Investment in education: How to get it right
  06/2009
• Poverty in Germany
  06/2009
• Environmental tax reform - at a time of financial crisis?
  05/2009
• Tax policy and the Male Breadwinner Model in Germany
  05/2009
• Gemeinschaftsdiagnose
  05/2009
• Tax policy in Germany
  05/2009
• Deindustrialization and structural change in Germany
  05/2009
• The guarantee on pension returns – The fiscal sustainability of the public pension system in Germany
  05/2009
• „Aufbau Ost“ – Eastern Germany in the process of catching up!?
  05/2009
• Globalization and economic crime: The rise of corruption in Germany?
  05/2009
• The implementation of the Bologna process in Germany
  05/2009
• Social Question revisited!? Does the prolonged (global) economy crisis make us rebel?
  05/2009
• Public labour administration reform in progress
  04/2009
• Public participation and state public property. Is it a way out of the crisis?
  04/2009
• Location marketing in Germany
  04/2009
• The Job Centre and the reorganization of the labour and social administration in Germany
  03/2009
• The "Schuldenbremse" -
  An answer against the increasing national debt?!
  03/2009
• Government subsidizes further training
  03/2009
• Länderfusion
  03/2009
• The "Solidarpakt II". Public transfer payments between East and West
  03/2009
• Wealth distribution in Germany
  03/2009
• Employment effects of stabilization policies - Experiences and lessons from the seventies for nowadays crisis?
  02/2009
• Tarifverhandlungen im Öffentlichen Dienst
  02/2009
• Labour force potential in Germany
  02/2009
• The reemployment of immigrants – The importance of better skills
  02/2009
• Unemployment and skills - The reemployment of (long-term) unemployed persons
  02/2009
• Gender wage gap in Germany
  02/2009
• Pension reform – DIW-model against old-age poverty for low-income earners
  01/2009
• Motor vehicle tax reform in Germany
  01/2009
• An all-time-high in labour force participation in Germany
  01/2009
• Inheritance tax reform in Germany
  12/2008
• Wage inequality and income distribution in Germany
  11/2008
• Inequality of income and unemployment
  11/2008
• Economic policy advice of the German Council of Economic Experts et. al. – nothing but hot air or good advice?
  11/2008
• National Education Summit
  11/2008
• Real wages in Germany
  10/2008
• Reform of Federalism II: Expectations and Reality
  09/2008
• Economic policy helps
  09/2008
• The subsistence minimum in Germany
  09/2008
• Income distribution and wage structure in Germany
  09/2008
• Employee ownership in Germany
  09/2008
• The unemployment insurance contribution rate in Germany
  08/2008
• Tuition fees in germany
  08/2008
• VAT Evasion
  07/2008
• Welfare state and social conditions in Germany
  07/2008
• Flexible Retirement in Germany
  06/2008
• Tax cuts
  06/2008
• Rückkehr der Inflation?
  06/2008
• Unemployment Statistics
  06/2008
• Migration and migration policy in Germany
  06/2008
• Intergenerational justice: Social justice within generation relations
  06/2008
• Unemployment duration, incentives and welfare benefits
  06/2008
• Quo vadis Rentenversicherung?
  05/2008
• Civil Service salary increase
  04/2008
• German pensions policy and the pension formula
  04/2008
• Inequality, employee involvement and politics
  04/2008
• Krank durch den Beruf - Krank im Berufsleben -
  die Zeche zahlt der (Sozial)Staat
  04/2008
• Reform and financing of social long-term care insurance
  03/2008
• More chances in the vocational training market
  03/2008
• Agenda 2010 - a interim result of the German reform of the welfare state
  03/2008
• Criticism of the German subsidy policy
  03/2008
• Should the mentoring of long-term unemployed people be reorganized in Germany?
  02/2008
• Health fund: financing statutory health insurance
  02/2008
• Tax evasion: methods and measures against tax fraud
  02/2008
• Development of real wages
  02/2008
• Optimal capital income taxation
  01/2008
• Auflösung des deutschen Tarifmodells
  01/2008
• Corporate income tax reform 2008 in Germany
  01/2008
• Health fund: financing statutory health insurance
  01/2008
• Inflation in Germany
  12/2007
• Reconciling Work and Family Life - Child poverty in Germany
  12/2007
• Different aspects of occupational pension schemes in Germany
  12/2007
• CEO compensation in Germany
  12/2007
• Electricity prices and competition in Germany
  12/2007
• Technological competitiveness of Germany and the international innovation competition
  11/2007
• Self-employment and social security in Germany
  11/2007
• Discussion on road user charges in Germany
  11/2007
• The situation of the German social security insurance
  11/2007
• Rail privatisation with preference shares?
  11/2007
• Banking supervision; Bank monitoring
  11/2007
• Media economics and media industry cluster in Germany
  11/2007
• Social mobility
  11/2007
• Distributive justice in Germany
  10/2007
• Railway strike in Germany: The end of collective agreements?
  10/2007
• Particulate air pollution - emission control in cities and urban regions
  10/2007
• Threshold in German labour law
  10/2007
• Reform of unemployment compensation in Germany?
  10/2007
• Energie- und Klimapolitik der Bundesregierung
  09/2007
• Ownership Unbundling of Energy Companies
  09/2007
• Highly-skilled workers and immigration law in Germany
  09/2007
• 50 years of the Federal Bank of Germany
  08/2007
• Telekommunikation
  07/2007
• 50 Jahre Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen
  07/2007
• Railway privatisation
  06/2007
• Absicherung von Selbständigen im Sozialversicherungssystem
  06/2007
• Long-term care insurance
  06/2007
• East German catching up process: Assessment after 17 years German Unification
  05/2007
• Abgeltungssteuer
  05/2007

• Kräftiger Aufschwung trotz Bremsspuren
  05/2007

• Raucherregelung - Verbot oder Wahlfreiheit
  05/2007

• Stock options
  05/2007

• "Cold Calls"
  04/2007

• Employment effects of environmental protection
  04/2007

• Corporate tax reform
  04/2007

• Corruption and its prevention in business
  04/2007

• Electricity markets
  03/2007
• Familiy policy
  03/2007
• CO2 emissions
  02/2007
• Black coal in Germany
  02/2007
• Inheritance tax
  02/2007
• Minimum wage in Germany
  02/2007
• Is the regionalization of the german social health insurance constitutional?
  01/2007
• Employee ownership and investment wage:
  concepts and implementation
  12/2006
• Neue Armut –
  Empirische Befunde zur Unterschichtendebatte in Deutschland
  10/2006
• Die Schaffung von Eliteuniversitäten als Instrument der Bildungspolitik
  10/2006
• Impact analysis of health reform in Germany
  09/2006
• Corporate tax reform in Germany
  09/2006
• Family tax splitting does not bring the expected results
  08/2006
• Reform of the tax splitting in Germany
  06/2006
• Family Policy in Germany and the European Union
  06/2006
• Corporate tax burden in Germany
  04/2006
• How to finance the Health System in Germany
  04/2006
• The caring hand that cripples
  03/2006
• Worker co-determination in Germany -
  Today still as good as yesterday?
  02/2006
• Value added Tax:
  An Alternative financing instrument of social insurance systems? 01/2006

Pdf versions:

• On the impact of growing international economic interdependence on wage structure and income distribution
  12/2005

• Paul Kirchhof
  08/2005

• Political Discussion about Sales Tax
  08/2005

• Hartz IV: Incentive Problems
  08/2005

• International capital income: Problems and taxation in Germany
  07/2005

• Deflation - theoretical aspects and empirical findings
  07/2005

• Elderly workers: German labour market and labor markt policy
  07/2005

• Minimum wages in Germany - all over the economy?
  07/2005

• Tuition fees in Germany?
  06/2005

• Revenue forecast
  05/2005

• Tuition Fees for German University Students
  02/2005

• Hartz-Laws: Labor market reform in Germany
  01/2005

• Employment effects of Globalization. The case of the German Car Industry
  12/2004

• Structural Change in Germany
  12/2004

• Extension of working time in Germany - a new discussion about working time
  12/2004

• Hartz IV: Labour market policy reform in Germany
  07/2004

• Innovation in East Germany
  07/2004

• With many facets: administrative and political aspects of company pension schemes in Germasny
  06/2004

• Truck toll as a measure of transportation policy
  03/2004

• The reform of the German crafts law
  01/2004

• German tax reform
  01/2004

• Effects of the New Basel Capital Accord on SME financing
  02/2003