Kiel Policy Brief No. 129: Despite the gloomy economic outlook for Germany, the Federal Employment Agency will continue to generate surpluses...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 114: The rate of contributions to unemployment insurance should be reduced immediately from 3 to 2.5 percent. The...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 104: In Germany, the system of unemployment insurance has been in surplus since 2011. The reserves amounted to Euro 11...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 35: The financial situation of the social security system in Germany has improved due to the strong upswing and the...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 77: Based on his analysis of the financial situation of the social security system in Germany, the Kiel economist Alfred...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 81: The tax burden of typical wage income earners in Germany is analysed by the Kiel economist Alfred Boss.

Kiel Policy Brief No. 63: In his Kiel Policy Brief the Kiel economist Alfred Boss warns of the return of the deficit in Germany’s social...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 124: The Federal Labor Agency will achieve a budget surplus in 2019 as well as in 2020 – despite of the decrease of the...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 115: In this paper it is explained why the rate of contributions to unemployment insurance should be reduced from 3.0 to...

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Kiel Policy Brief No. 56: The Kiel economist Alfred Boss shows that the financial situation of the social security system in Germany has...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 41: The German system of income taxation is characterized by a strong degree of progression. “Bracket creep” due to the...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 47: The financial situation of the social security system in Germany has improved due to the strong upswing and the...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 86: In his Kiel Policy Brief the Kiel economist Alfred Boss concludes that due to specific rules in the German system of...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 97: The unemployment insurance system in Germany will realize large surpluses in 2015 and 2016 according to a forecast...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 91: The surplus of the social security system in Germany will continue to decline in 2015 and in 2016 despite of the...

Subsidies are selective benefits granted by the federal government, states, municipalities and other state institutions in favor of selected...

The authors analyse public subsidies in Germany and provide actual figures of subsidy expenditures and tax concessions as granted by the...