This project examined aspects related to the transformation of the German college sector towards more competition. The project had two phases. In the first phase the differences in graduate school programmes were…
The project had the purpose to develop a ranking of investment locations from the point of view of family controlled companies.The resulting ranking among 14 locations shows a discomforting 11th rank for Germany…
In this project the knowledge of employer and worker heterogeneity shall be deepened and especially the effects of heterogeneity on wages, productivity, employment changes and labour demand are to be examined. The…
The IVU Traffic Technologies AG has expanded the tax data base of the Ministry of Finance. The data base hosts data on tax revenue developments and estimates of tax revenue changes due to new laws.In the project,…
One crucial feature of most industrial countries tax-and-transfer system is the disincentive to work for the low qualified. The Swiss legislation commissioned an international expert group to assess the…
This project investigated the evolution of the wage distribution and wage inequality (since 1994), both for East and West Germany, based on samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) from 1984 to 2004,…
Markets trading emissions rights at times feature adventurous price movements. This has, for example, been observable in the past for NOx emissions rights as traded on the US Regional Clean Air Incentives Market…
Our client is interested in an assessment of the demographical problems in its specific labour market and an analysis of the different problem solving possibilities. Especially the age structure of the employees,…
The M&A Report is compiled jointly by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and Bureau van Dijk (BvD). The M&A Report semi-annually informs about current topics and developments in the field of…