On 18 May 2016, the Federal Cabinet has entrusted the Ministry of Economy and Energy (BMWi) with the implementation of the purchase grant for electric cars. The support is financed equally with federal funds and resources to the…

Following the expansion of renewable energy in Germany, an increasing number of private households is producing heat and electricity for themselves. Prosumer-households consume at least a small part of their own generated energy. In a…

Private consumption that considers resource-saving and environmentally friendly behaviour is one aspect of sustainable development. The current soeb-Working-Paper 2016-3 published within the research network soeb 3 shows the impact of a…

The indicator TBI measures past and future conditions under which participation can be realised. First results show that participation conditions have shown a general upward tendency since 2006. The improvement of participation conditions…

The price dynamics of the market for already existing houses seem to decline. While the house prices continue to increase, the growth of the house-price-to-income-ratio has slowed down. Nowadays an employee needs 8 times his annual…

In the newly released BIBB data report for the “Berufsbildungsbericht 2016” the QuBe Consortium (www.qube-projekt.de) presents first results regarding the development of the population and selected sectors taking into account the number…

Against the background of the massive increase in refugee numbers the consequences of refugee immigration on the economy was already discussed in October 2015 by the Economic and Social affairs team of GWS (GWS Discussion Paper 2015/17).…

The Republika Srpska (entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina) is climatically challenged both by cold winters and hot summers. More efficient buildings can help lower heating and cooling demand. This was explained in detail on national…

In average, each directly employed person in the industry sector produces 1.2 jobs in other sectors of the economy. This is the result of an analysis of the GWS mbH that is based on the latest input output table of Germany. It confirms…

The team of Economic and Social Affairs has tried to find a way to improve the estimation of long-term immigration to Germany. The new modelling aproach considers immigration differentiated by countries, age and sex and includes different…