While experts and politicians pay considerable attention to efficiency considerations when they design reform strategies for the tax system and the welfare state, the public debate is dominated often by…
In Germany, families currently benefit from more than 150 different public transfers. The established complex scheme of family related transfers comprises direct money transfers, favourable tax treatment,…
The aim of this project in cooperation with the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) is to estimate returns to education on the labour market in Germany. We consider developments over…
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…
In the debate on the consolidation of the (local) German budgets (states and municipalities) considerations aiming either at the consolidation of the revenue side (taxes) or expenditure side (transfer payments)…
Besides hard eonomic facts, cultural factors and social norms find increasing attention in eonomic analyses to foster the full understanding of many micro- and macroeconomic phenomena. This also holds for…
Just as large-scale enterprises are facing the upcoming challenges and chances of globalization, so are medium-sized enterprises. The internationalization of research and development (R&D) and innovation activity…
Buy-and-build strategies (leveraged build-up, strategic roll-up) are part of the active portfolio management of private equity companies. Thereby the financial investors frequently focus on a certain fragmented…
Representing one research project within the European Competitiveness Report 2008, this research project has assessed the competitiveness effects of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Within the project, it…
The project was thematically and in the editing closely linked to the research network “Non-Cognitive Skills: Acquisition and Economic Consequences”. The focus of the project was the evaluation of measures,…
The aim of this research project is to analyze empirically the impacts of company taxation on decisions of multinational companies. Both real investment decisions and the design of business activities seem to…
Tax policy decisions of states in competition for investments are regularly modelled in a very simplified way. However, complicated decisions, e.g., regarding the reform of corporate taxation in Germany, reveal…