Whilst life expectancy is on the rise in Germany, demographic change lags behind. Between these two trends yawns the pension gap: the difference between the net earned income a person…
Professor emeritus Gebhard Kirchgässner, a member of the Scientific Advisory Council at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) for many years and professor emeritus at the…
On 16 and 17 March 2017, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the University of Mannheim jointly organised the sixth annual conference of the Mannheim Centre for…
The "Magic Square" (Magisches Viereck) is a concept many Germans learn about in school. It describes the four cornerstones of Germany's economy, enshrined in the 1967 Act to Promote…
