East and West Germany were reunited as a single sovereign state in the 1990s. Increasing competition from abroad, high energy costs, still elevated interest rates and uncertain economic prospects have ...

“That is the legend of the Ruhr,” says Gerhard Kienbaum, economics minister of West Germany’s state of North Rhine-Westphalia. “Today it corresponds to reality about as well as the ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. We examine the impact of precarious work (low income and job security satisfaction) on the intention to have a first child. We consider a ...

1. The Germans weren’t England’s bogey team (yet) Losing to Germany (and their fore-runners West Germany) has become a habit for the England national team in the ‘50 years of hurt’ since ...

They lived in refugee camps before settling in Ludwigsburg, West Germany. After completing school and military service, Mr. Köhler studied economics at the University of Tübingen, graduating in ...