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is the aim and title of our major new research initiative, to which we are devoting the vast majority of our resources between now and December 2009. The initiative addresses the emerging economic, social and political challenges confronting governments not only in Germany and the UK, but across Europe and the industrialised world.
The total budget for the initiative amounts to around £3 million, or €4.5 million.
Each programme, and the initiative as a whole, will engage in dialogue with key policy actors and stakeholders through a programme of seminars, workshops and conferences, notably a major mid-point conference in autumn 2007 and concluding policy events in autumn 2009 to be held in London and Berlin.
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To download the csge Leaflet (German version) please click here
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Following csge sections are available on this page:
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THEMES AND PROGRAMMES
The initiative addresses the following core themes:
- Innovation, Productivity and Growth
- Environment and Resources
- and Welfare, Employment and Social Justice
It addresses the emerging economic, social and political challenges confronting governments not only in Germany and the UK, but across Europe and the industrialised world.
The research is organised in four linked programmes, each addressing one or more of the core themes, and each carried out by multinational teams of researchers.
Programme Coordinator: Professor Tobias Kretschmer,
University of Munich/Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
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Programme Coordinator: Professor Paul Ekins, Policy Studies Institute, London
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Programme Coordinator: Professor Christian Dustmann, University College London
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Programme Coordinator: Professor Jochen Clasen, University of Edinburgh
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Each programme will run for three years and will be carried out by a multi-national, multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary team of distinguished researchers. They will engage in dialogue with key policy actors and stakeholders through a programme of seminars, workshops and large conferences to be held in London and Berlin, notably a major mid-point conference in autumn 2007 and concluding policy events in autumn 2009.
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In 1973 , the year in which Britain entered the European Community and in which the Anglo-German Foundation was established, the British economy was struggling with conflictual industrial relations, weak productivity growth and poor macroeconomic management. It has now experienced more than a decade of growth, has record low rates of unemployment and is currently enjoying the benefits of a well-functioning macroeconomic policy framework outside the Euro zone. The West German economy fared much better in the 1970s and 1980s, with an industrial sector featuring high levels of training and product quality and an effective macroeconomic framework, both operating in the context of strong unions and employers’ associations. But a decade and a half after German unification, the German economy is suffering from sluggish growth and high unemployment. Do the institutions, structures and customs of either country add up to a ‘model’ appropriate for today’s economic challenges? Can we transfer innovations or best practice from one national system into another? Or do the reform experiments which have taken place elsewhere in Europe provide other models of economic organisation which could complement or supplant the Rhineland and Anglo-Saxon models?
The challenges facing European economies today are substantially different from those which confronted us in 1973. Among the most pressing are the need to stimulate creativity and innovation in order to remain globally competitive; the impact of an ageing population; changing patterns and flows of migration; and environmental constraints on sustainable growth. We believe that it will not be possible to meet those challenges without collaborative and comparative research in the spirit of the Foundation’s traditions and founding Charter. That Charter will expire in December 2009, and this new research initiative aims to set the seal on the Foundation’s contribution over the last thirty years to the understanding of industrial society in Britain and Germany, and to create a lasting legacy in the form of an outline framework for a sustainable industrial society for the next thirty years.
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The initiative is overseen by a distinguished Academic Advisory Board appointed by the Foundation under the chairmanship of Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, formerly Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford University.
The other members of the Advisory Board are:
Lars Calmfors, Professor of International Economics, Stockholm University
Wendy Carlin, Professor of Economics, University College London
Roland Clift, Professor of Environmental Technology, University of Surrey
Anita Pfaff, Professor of Economics, Augsburg University
Chiara Saraceno, Professor of Sociology, Turin University; Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
Udo Simonis, Professor of Environmental Policy, Social Science Research Centre Berlin
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PAST EVENTS
> Management Practices & Productivity: Why They Matter
12 July 2007
Speakers: Stephanie Flanders Economics Editor, BBC Newsnight; John Dowdy Director, McKinsey & Company; John Van Reenen Director, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
Chair: Dominic Casserley Managing Partner, UK & Ireland, McKinsey & Company
This seminar presented the findings of the latest phase of the research into management practices among industrials - now extended to more than 3,500 manufacturers in over 10 countries (including the UK, USA, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, India and Japan).
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> European natural resource use in a world-wide context. Results from the Global Resource Accounting Model (GRAM) by Stefan Giljum, Christian Lutz
Presented at the OECD-UNEP Conference on Resource Efficiency. Paris, 04/2008
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> Resource productivity, environmental tax reform and sustainable growth in Europe by P. Ekins
Presented at 7th European Forum for Science and Technology ‘Efficiency of The European Science and its Global Competitiveness’ Prague, 05/2008
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> Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Technology and Employment by N. Bloom, M. Draca and J. Van Reenen
Presented at the Conference for the Analysis of Enterprise Microdata (CAED), Budapest, 05/2008 ,
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> Do older workers obstruct IT-enabled productivity? Firm-level Evidence from Germany by I. Bertschek and J. Meyer.
Presented at the 3rd European Workshop on Labour Markets and Demographic Change, 05/2008
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Public dialogue: It is a key element of the initiative to engage stakeholders. Through policy debates and an academic conference, the researchers will enter into public dialogue with the policy community and the academic world:
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> On 29 November 2007, at the Auswärtiges Amt in Berlin, a policy speech was held by Professor Dr. Andreas Troge, the President of the Federal Environment Agency, followed by a panel discussion and open debate.
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> On 30 November 2007, a one-day open research conference was held in Berlin, at the Alexander Plaza Hotel.
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> On 5 December 2007, at the London Foreign & Commonwealth Office, a policy speech was held by Jim Murphy MP, Minister for Europe, followed by a panel discussion and open debate.
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Summary Report of the csge Midpoint Policy Debates 2007
with speeches, presentations and discussions at the two policy debates held in November and December 2007 in Berlin and London to mark the halfway point of the Foundation’s research initiative on ‘creating sustainable growth in europe’ and a Foreword by Professor Sir Tony Atkinson.
For an English full version please click here.
For a German full version please click here.
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> RESEARCH STUDY
Growing Wage Inequality in Germany
In Germany, wage inequality has been rising since the late 1970s. Throughout the 1980s, all workers experienced a real wage growth, but wages grew substantially faster for workers at the top of the wage distribution. In contrast, in the 1990s and early 2000s, i.e. after reunification, real wages continued to rise at the top, but started to decline for low income groups.
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For related press cuttings see below:
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> PRESS CUTTINGS
> Für längere Arbeit weniger Geld
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 24 September 2007
> Lohnverhältnisse wie in den USA
Financial Times Deutschland, Berlin, 29 June 2007
> Reichen werden reicher, Arme ärmer
Handelsblatt, Berlin, 29 June 2007
> Löhne steigen kaum
Focus Online, Berlin, 29 June 2007
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