The GWS Discussion Paper 16/8 contributes to the public dispute about the bracket creep and the need for tax reliefs by an analysis of the effects of a permanent proportional income tax reduction on the total economy as well as on the…

The International Association of Energy Economics founded a regional hub for Central Asia in Baku (Aug. 28 - Sept. 1). Ulrike Lehr presented at this conference results of a study on economic effects of energy efficiency the Eastern…

The question whether Germany is an immigration country or not has been in the scope of discussion for many years now. The commonly used term of net migration to illustrate this issue fails at showing what is going on exactly. A…

At the 34th General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) in Dresden (21 - 27 August 2016) two GWS researchers - Britta Stöver and Thomas Drosdowski – have appealed to the expert audience…

Private households experience in average an increase in disposable income of about 19 Euro per month if their payments of income taxes is reduced by 3.1 %. However, the amount varies between only 1.90 Euro for unemployed and 39.70 Euro…

The 24th International Input-Output Conference was hosted this year in Seoul, South Korea, from July, 4th-8th. GWS was represented by Gerd Ahlert and Anke Mönnig. They presented research results to the topics global input-output…

Anett Großmann and Frank Hohmann have attended the 8th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2016) in Toulouse and have presented the model and paper "E3.pt - An E3 PortableDyme model for Portugal". The…

The annual conference of the EcoMod network, the network of economic modelling, this year took place in Lisbon, Portugal. GWS participated with three people and four presentations. Britta Stoever spoke about her approach on Modelling the…

Great Britain’s decision to leave the European Union is currently causing huge political excitement. The consequences, however, will also be felt in the national economy of Britain itself as well as among its trade partners/ nations.…

On 13th/14th June 2016, the European Public Service Union (EPSU) and its Austrian affiliate Younion organised a seminar on digitalisation. A broad range of topics were covered in discussions that made clear the extent to which new…