Endlich! Die Krise ist vorbei. Die Auftragsbücher der Unternehmensind voll wie lange nicht mehr, und die Konjunkturforschungsinstituteüberbieten sich mit optimistischen Prognosen.Deutschland hat im letzten Jahr mit einem Wachstum des Bruttoinlandsproduktsum 2,7 Prozent zu seiner Rolle als...

[...]Der Bericht teilt sich in sieben Kapitel auf. Nachdem in Kapitel zwei die Definitionder Familienunternehmen festgelegt wird, erfolgt im dritten Kapitel eineErläuterung der Datenbasis sowie der Vorgehensweise zur Erstellung der Datenbankder Familienunternehmen. Anschließend wird in Kapitel...

This paper analyzes the e¤ectiveness of the tax and transfer systemsin the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the currenteconomic crisis. We …nd that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a propor-tional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...

This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protecthouseholds at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economicdownturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi country micro simulation model toanalyse how shocks on market...

The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changesthat have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens withadequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on datafor 24 European Union countries,...

The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-warhistory appears as an economic miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to bea strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important factors that have contributed tothis development include...

The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact onnational labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also variedgreatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurancebenefits and minimum...

In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared toother industrialized countries. Despite a large drop in output, employment has hardlychanged. In this paper, we analyze the determinants of German firms’ labor demand duringthe crisis using a firm-level panel...