Volume 76 (2023), Edition 6

Globalisation is increasingly becoming precarious. But to what extent do the precariousness of globalisation and the struggle for control of transnational value chains incentivise the EU to appear as a geostrategic, or more precisely: geoeconomic...

The European integration process has always been closely linked to economic liberalisation, which has mostly been pursued without sufficient social integration. Moreover, with the enlargement rounds since 2004, the socio-economic heterogeneity of...

A central basis for the EU’s social cohesion was the economic convergence of its member states. However, the concentration of scientific, technological and entrepreneurial competences in recent years has stopped this convergence of economic and...

The article analyses how income inequality has developed in Germany in recent years and shows how the position of the employee in the income distribution corresponds with different experiences in daily life. Both the overall inequality of disposable...

For more than three years the WSI has been regularly surveying the German labour force. What originally started as a short-term “lockdown survey” has since grown into a panel survey with ten survey waves, which has been received in academia and...

With the comprehensive reform of the Works Constitution Act in 1972, migrants without German citizenship were granted the right to stand for election to a works council (passive right to vote). Now, 50 years after this reform (which went largely...

On the basis of representative data, the article describes the long-term development of atypical employment forms. Their significant increase in the 1990s and 2000s did not continue in the 2010s. However, there are differences between the individual...