During the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2015 (COP21) and its resulting Paris Agreement, 195 countries agreed to set out a global action plan to limit global…
Building on the Socio-Ecologic Panel (SÖP) established in the BMBF-funded project Eval-MAP (www.rwi-essen.de/eval-map), the objectives of the proposed project Eval-MAP II are twofold. First, we will undertake…
The aim of this project was to investigate whether the introduction of the federal minimum wage in Germany in 2015 causally effected self-employment. The project was conducted using data on self-employment from…
The project "The relevance of non-state actors for individual climate protection activities and climate policy: A theoretical, experimental, and empirical analysis (NostaClimate)", financed by the Federal Ministry…
In this research project we present the commonly employed set of innovation indicators and demonstrate the limitations thereof. Our target is to develop new approaches in order to tackle and remedy these…
The project CLIC is pursuing three overarching goals: advancing methods for economic assessments of transboundary climate impacts on economic activities, applying these methods for analyzing such effects on the…
The “Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau” (KfW) has been establishing a firm panel on the basis of paper-and-pencil interviews which is representative of medium-sized and large companies since 2002. Companies of all…
The project aimed at preparing the European innovation survey for the 2020 reference year (Community Innovation Survey – CIS 2020). This included the development of a questionnaire and an update of the survey…
Compared to other industrialized countries maternal labor supply in Germany is low, i.e. in terms of participation and because a large share of mothers is working parttime.An important determinant of maternal…
The increased use of automation and digitization at the work place is an important part of the public and academic debate on the future role of work in modern societies and potential reforms of the welfare state.…
The aim of the project is to investigate the use of digitalisation in the context of product innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany and Japan. Based on a dedicated survey in both…
This project aims to compose characteristics and structural elements of business creations during the years 2005 to 2016. Our focus lies primarily on innovation activities of young companies. Furthermore, financin…