The aim of this project is to investigate the ongoing digital transformation and its potential impact on the future of work in Luxembourg taking into account its specific economic structure. The resulting study…
Economies and societies worldwide are currently in a digital transformation process. Digitalisation is seen as an important enabler for innovation. However, recent studies show that especially small- and…
Over the years, the importance of digitalization has been increasingly accelerating and influencing production, business processes as well as the creation of new business models. Consequently, it is expected that…
Economic activity is increasingly shifting from offline to online markets, which provide enormous opportunities for welfare gains. At the same time, network effects, the availability of big data and other typical…
Digital technologies are widely recognized as the key factor of aggregate and sectoral increases of productivity in recent times. While the potential of digitisation to substitute for jobs has been widely studied,…
The rise of the internet and the easy access to information is often seen as a chance for citizen involvement and information. In this perspective, democracies should benefit as well from more mature voters…
The project provides short reports and dialogue formats on labor market and social policy issues to the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. The purpose is to inform the current debate and the political…
Online platforms facilitate market entry for firms by providing an online presence and by giving access to clients and market information. Especially for smaller and medium-sized enterprises (SME) they provide…
In this project, we examined to what extend firms in different inustries in Germany rely on crowdworking over time. Crowdworking describes the allocation of usually internal business tasks and projects via online…