Allianz Research

Allianz Global Wealth Report 2024:
Surprising relief

Growing pains: The future of incomes for lockdown Gen-Z

The youth labor market is highly sensitive to economic cycles, with young people more likely to be in precarious employment than any other age group. After the 2008 Great Financial Crisis (GFC), it took years to recover across Europe and it could take even longer to recover from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic as it will hinder human capital accumulation, punishing young workers further and widening already present intergenerational inequalities.

Global supply chain survey

After the Covid-19 lockdowns disrupted global supply chains and put the concepts of supply-chain resilience and reshoring on every policymaker’s lips, we decided to check the pulse of companies in the U.S., the UK, France, Germany and Italy. 

Wanted: Public borrowers of last resort

Recent monetary developments in the EMU are a reminder that it is simplistic and therefore risky to sum up the fuzzy concept of liquidity with QE as if it was the alpha and omega of monetary phenomena.