Within the scope of this project, the ZEW conducted a survey with roughly 200 IT-experts and persons in charge from the information systems of companies of the manufacturing industry and selected service…
Today the diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) has reached almost any sector. It has led companies to adapt their business organization and to restructure business processes. The fact that…
The international research network "Non-Cognitive Skills - Acquisition and Economic Consequences" was supported for three years (2008-2010) by the Leibniz Association as a part of the "Pakt für Forschung und…
This project analysed the determinants of productivity of older employees on the basis of the IABS data set and the ICT survey of the ZEW. A special emphasis was put on the role of information and communication…
The implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) has increased the productivity of industrialized economies in the last two decades. However, the process of adoption, use and diffusion of ICT…
The research unit "Neuropsychology of Childhood and Adolescence" at the Central Institute of Mental Health and the educational group at the ZEW cooperated to study different development and environmental risks…
The aim of this study is to collate and evaluate regulatory practices for network-based industries in Germany and Europe, in order to identify basic regulatory structures and those which recur in a number of…
The project considers the social integration of low-skilled young people under the conditions of a knowledge-based economy. An essential factor of social integration in Germany is the transition from school to…
Over the last thirty years the participation of female employees in industrial countries has strongly increased whereas the wage difference between men and women has noticeably decreased. At the same time the…