Labor market policy

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Press release February 6, 2019

Still good labor market development leads to further decline in shadow economy in 2019 (in German).

In 2019, the size of the shadow economy in Germany will decrease by around EUR 5 billion. The ratio of the shadow economy to official GDP will thus fall to just over 9 percent. The main reason for this is the continuing good labor market situation, which so far has not been affected by the weaker growth outlook. In addition, lower taxes for the small self-employed make it more worthwhile to register a business.


Publications

Tobias Scheu, Lena Walser Eine empirische Analyse auf Basis des IAB-Betriebspanels, IAW-Kurzbericht 3/2025



Andreas Koch, Marcel Reiner, Tobias Scheu, u.a. Expert opinion commissioned by the Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labour, Energy and Climate Protection, 2025.


Jan Simon Wiemann, Philipp Ziegler Eine Auswertung des IAB-Betriebspanels Baden-Württemberg. IAW-Kurzbericht 1/2025.


Natalie Herdegen, Andreas Koch, Martin Kroczek, Philipp Kugler, Jochen Späth, et. al. In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik. https://doi.org/10.1515/jbnst-2025-0039, September 2025.