Nov 14, 2011Full employment is within reach – this was the consensus at a discussion organized by the Initiative for a New Social Market Economy (INSM) in Berlin. The route, however, remained controversial. The market-based dialogue is a series of events organized by the INSM. This time, the dialogue featured the two labor market politicians and members of parliament Brigitte Pothmer (The Greens) and Dr. Carsten Linnemann (CDU). Also present were the economist Prof. Thomas Straubhaar from the Hamburg Institute for the World Economy (HWWI) and Prof. Gustav Horn from the Institute for Macroeconomics and Cyclical Analysis (IMK).
Nov 09, 2011INSM-ambassador Karl-Heinz Paqué is dean of the faculty of economic sciences at the Otto-von-Guericke-University in Magdeburg. On INSM.de he explains why a comprehensive wage floor would jeopardize the accomplishments on the labor market that have been achieved in recent times. And why studies that allegedly prove that industry-wide minimum wages do not jeopardize jobs are not an argument for the introduction of a comprehensive wage floor.
Oct 31, 2011The Initiative for a New Social Market Economy (INSM) has great concerns about the minimum wage plans of the CDU. “A statutory minimum wage now means to change course just when the great goal of full employment has come within sight”, says INSM chief executive Hubertus Pellengahr.
Jun 24, 2011The region of Brandenburg-Berlin has undergone a particularly good economic development in the time between 2007 and 2010. Baden-Württemberg was hit hard by the crisis and ranks at the bottom of the comparison of economic dynamics. The ninth Federal State Ranking was conducted by the Initiative for a New Social Market Economy (INSM) and the magazine WirtschaftsWoche (WiWo) and was published on Friday, 24th of June 2011 in Berlin. Looking at the absolute economic levels though, Baden-Württemberg retains its position among the three leading federal states. In 2011 the leader of this group is Bavaria. Baden-Württemberg comes in second and thus beats Hamburg which came in third.
Jun 17, 2011In the Deutschland Check of June 2011 scientists of the Institute for the German Economy Cologne evaluate the accelerated phasing out of nuclear energy and the amendment of the German law for renewable energies (EEG). The check-up was conducted by the Initiative for a New Social Market Economy (INSM) and the magazine WirtschaftsWoche.
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