The project examines policy measures aimed at promoting productivity growth in Germany. Building on the analytical framework developed by Van Ark et al. (2023), it applies an existing typology of pro-productivity…
WinWin4Worklife would like to help make flexible working arrangements (Remote Working Arrangements, RWA) in Europe healthy, integrative and sustainable.
The project has five main objectives: 1) to develop an…
The EnDiKaU project is a joint projcet with the Justus Liebig University Gießen and part of the Distr@l funding programme of the state of Hesse. It supports Hessian SMEs in the effective use of communication data…
Digital platforms largely transform the creator economy. By providing easy access for content producers and content consumers, decentralized information sharing has implications for democracy and culture, as…
Social media have lately become one of the primary information channels for many individuals, which was exacerbated during the recent pandemic. As such, social media is a major example of the ambivalence of…
The purpose of the project is to measure the digitalisation of the German economy and to track its development over time. The results will serve as an…
The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) conducts a quarterly survey among companies in the information sector starting in the third quarter of 2011. The latter effort is a follow-up project, replacing the …
How much has the German government spent on digital policy initiatives in recent years? This question cannot be answered ad hoc on the basis of the available data. The need for a centralised digital budget has…