In 2005, German companies spend 106.8 billion euros in innovation. One year later, this amount increased to 108.1 billion euros. Similar innovation expenditure is expected for 2007.
Energy experts consider the increased environmental charges (such as taxes or feed-in tariffs for renewable energy) as well as the high market concentration in the power generating sector to be the main reasons…
Companies with works councils pay significantly higher wages than those without it. A comparison of companies with similar features regarding the economic sector, company size, etc. suggests that enterprises…
More than 31 per cent of the companies from the IT and media sector as well as from branches using IT and media technology (user branches) evaluate their current business situation as good. Another 53 per cent…
The first quarter of the new year is not expected to bring about any strong price movements on the German and European stock markets. Leading financial market analysts of German banks interviewed in the course…
The integration subsidies provided by the Federal Employment Agency enable only few elderly unemployed to find work more rapidly. Even though statistics have proven a positive impact on women in eastern…
The financial market experts interviewed by ZEW expect the German share index (DAX) to increase by 5 per cent in the coming year. The potential of the US-American index Dow Jones is to lie at merely 2.5 per…
Acquiring the "Abitur", the German school leaving certificate equivalent to British A Levels, pays off. This is particularly true for students from households in which parents are less well-educated. In their…
