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Dr. Anna Kerkhof

ifo Center for Industrial Organization and New Technologies
Economist

Prof. Dr. Lisandra Flach

ifo Center for International Economics
Director of the ifo Center for International Economics

Mirely Kollmannsberger

ifo Center for Labor and Demographic Economics, ifo Center for International Institutional Comparisons and Migration Research
Team Assistant

Sarah Gust

ifo Center for the Economics of Education
Junior Economist and Doctoral Student

Valeria Volkova

Human Resources and Law
Human Resources Administrator

Vera Freundl

ifo Center for the Economics of Education
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Central Abitur

In recent months, there has been an increasingly intense debate about the need for comparable exit examinations throughout Germany. Taken at the end of secondary school, the exit exam or Abitur has German pupils demonstrate their readiness for higher education and is required for access to the university system. Over the past 60 years, the number of pupils who take the exam has steadily risen.

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Coronavirus

The coronavirus crisis began in China in late 2019 and has caused major health and economic damage worldwide. In the affected countries, it triggered both a supply shock and a demand shock, thus giving rise to the essential difficulty in the economic management of the coronavirus.

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Funding Policy

Regional disparities in income and employment opportunities, infrastructure, mobility, education, and health are sometimes very pronounced both in Europe and within Germany. Funding policy is therefore a key lever for supporting the development of economically and structurally weaker regions and for creating equal living conditions.