ZEW Discussion Papers

This paper evaluates a large-scale French program (PACEA) providing intensive job-search assistance and placement into training to unemployed youths. Guided by a job-search and matching model, we combine…

Scientific misconduct in the medical and health sciences remains a major concern for practitioners, patients, scientists, and funders. Even as retractions of fraudulent articles have increased sharply in recent…

Patents let pharmaceutical firms price new therapeutics largely free from competitive constraint. Outside the U.S., value-based pricing (VBP) ties market access and price to evidence of therapeutic benefit or…

This paper provides an overview of evidence on firms’ adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We revisit the main conceptual drivers of AI uptake discussed in the literature and summarize global trends in AI…

We study platform workers' preferences for social protection — in the form of sick pay and paid annual leave — distinguishing between workers who entered platform work out of economic necessity (the "pushed")…

The ZEW Mannheim Enterprise Panel for the Analysis of Longitudinal Business Dynamism (MUP–LBD) is a comprehensive micro database of businesses observed in Germany, covering the period 2000–2023 and comprising…

Environmental pollution remains a critical challenge in developing countries. This paper thus investigates the relationship between corporate sustainability engagement and the environmental conditions of the…

A growing number of countries have introduced Digital Nomad Visas (DNVs) to accommodate the rise of location-independent remote work, often paired with tax incentives. Using simulation analysis, this paper…

Many donors leave tax benefits unclaimed even when doing so requires minimal effort and yields meaningful financial rewards. Findings from our representative survey point to confusion about how to deduct…