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The COVID-19 pandemic and the socially distanced economy reveal longstanding inequalities that have been growing wider and wider for decades. This Policy Brief summarizes and contextualizes some of the main…

• Expectations at Pre-Crisis Level
• Expectations for Offices and Hotels Are Recovering
• The Refinancing Markets Are Also Recovering
• Reduced Mobility Affects New Business Across Real Estate Segments

Using a structural life-cycle model, we quantify the long-term impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental…

Devising appropriate policy measures for the integration of refugees is high on the agenda of many governments. This paper focuses on the social integration of families seeking asylum in Germany between 2013 and…

Departing from communism, East Germany witnessed history’s most extensive privatization program. While the program sparked global interest as a blueprint for privatization, its effectiveness remains disputed.…

• Outlook for Chinese Economy Improves Significantly: CEP indicator rises to 44.4 points
• 27 analysts participated in the September survey, which was conducted during the period 7 till 16 September 2020

• Konjunkturausblick verbessert sich erneut
• Eurozone: Konjunkturerwartungen und Lageeinschätzung verbessern sich
• USA: Lage und Ausblick verbessern sich
• Japan: Lage- und Erwartungsindikator steigt an
• Großbrit…

We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find…