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Whether you track into a Gymnasium or a Realschule/Hauptschule in 5/6th grade is not an absolute divide in a German… https://t.co/F2y45uLzp9

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"Poor countries suffer deeper and more frequent recessions and crises, each time suffering permanent output losses… https://t.co/wxGFxmVR5T

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Kids from German famiiles that are at risk of poverty and have no experience of university are more likely to drop… https://t.co/FxLA8O126K

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Old Man in A Hurry – Churchill and Europe. Typically judicious review by @RichardToye @ExeterCIGH of two important… https://t.co/3dEYZ4A5Af

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@StefanSasse ahhh interesting point. Will see whether there are data on that. thanks for great point.

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Germany’s tripartite high school system produces considerable hurdles to upward mobility: 2 % of students from Real… https://t.co/DCg3ljFC0P

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Bracing for an escalation of the crisis in Congo? This excellent piece by Joe Trapido in the NLR provides important… https://t.co/s8YfhlQliL

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One of the basic determinants of German social structure is the choice of middle school/high school entering 5th gr… https://t.co/xzbwKTg7An

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There will be an English-language version of "The Germany Illusion" coming out next month! https://t.co/T2LIGp6ao3

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The “dark side” of the German success story revealed: @M_C_Klein and @MFratzscher dig deep! Verteilungskampf is ess… https://t.co/796Wy4lcpl

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Participation in German elections is heavily determined by levels of unemployment. Work by Armin Schaefer for… https://t.co/jEjfCxEzXo

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Will it? Wont it? Is Turkey the weak link in the EM chain? The lira fell yesterday to lowest level in 28 years. Plu… https://t.co/LEwj4ZJCaG

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As in other capitalist democracies in Germany too electoral participation has declined and particularly sharply for… https://t.co/M5tZ9ObEYN

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It isn’t just the rise in the scale of EM debt that is worrying the @IMFNews it is the structure i.e. borrowing fro… https://t.co/OlNutckBSv

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Quintiles of the income distribution across the EU compared in standard units. A sobering index of where the UK (Ve… https://t.co/LuiyjOMRdm

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Banks – Greece – ECB: The sequence of the crisis narrative 2008-2016 at Germany’s @SZ analyzed alongside other nati… https://t.co/upsqKQ2QDd

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Germany’s upper class is concentrated in a handful of major high wealth cities: Hamburg, Dusseldorf-Koeln, Frankfur… https://t.co/qqjjY2mjnv

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"For too long, euro area leaders have dismissed or denigrated domestic public rebellions. This is a terrible mistak… https://t.co/UmCpnJdBzQ

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The skewed wealth distribution in Germany is not unusual but nevertheless worth checking out given that it is Europ… https://t.co/jjY1bhOPHW

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"With roughly $70 bn outstanding, Puerto Rico is one of only a few large trades available to hedge funds seeking in… https://t.co/i3Vo9pEGZI

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Fascinating diagram from Germany’s official inquiry into poverty and wealth inequality showing overlap between top… https://t.co/WW7lOSp0bE

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"China said it will begin applying its so-called social credit system to flights and trains and stop people who hav… https://t.co/c2QA7nELBW

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American attitudes to trade seem to vary fairly predictably with unemployment levels. Data from @Gallup . Has anyon… https://t.co/mY9bfkPdE0

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From protecting dissenters to protecting capital: How First Amendment became a vehicle for the rights of corporatio… https://t.co/q8aQ4PFKcc

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Poverty in an affluent society: the risk of poverty in 21st century Germany is dictated by precarious labour market… https://t.co/dAswmWzcmt

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What if we thought of "monetary policy from a structural standpoint of how financial firms work”? Then we would tar… https://t.co/80NTeaC2Ik

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Fascinating portrait of divisions in German cohorts (1974-1986) most directly affected by the Agenda 2010/Hartz IV… https://t.co/UR4WLoJYcV

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Will the Turkish central bank be willing to raise rates to break the risk of a downward "depreciation spiral"?… https://t.co/kXOrpizxL7

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Collective wage contracts in Germany cover above all the better paid: 66 % for top quintile v. 25 % for bottom.… https://t.co/74UQu70XPj

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Menu signed by the German and Russian delegations following their explosive side deal at Rapallo in April 1922 that… https://t.co/UQYRhVNhmr

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Collective bargaining coverage in Germany varies strongly with size of corporation. This too is an aspect of the le… https://t.co/7dfGU7l5mP

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Motorization, cellular telephony and solar power all create demand for lead batteries which is fed in poor countrie… https://t.co/6Bj5f9QUU3

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The relationship between collective bargaining coverage and the share of the low wage sector across OECD countries… https://t.co/1FHwkJxdGt

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"Intra-African trade came to $170bn in 2017 and accounts for only 15 per cent of the continent’s trade” v. 67 % of… https://t.co/8aPudyzEiX

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Development of “low wage” sector in Germany btw 1995 and 2014: sees increase from 16.5 to 23 %… https://t.co/Kq6Y3zvAW7

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For two decades btw 1995 and 2015 the real hourly wage for bottom 40 % of German workforce fell, while top 40 % inc… https://t.co/NPQ8fJguaP

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