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,…
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,…
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…
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…
The TETRIS project aimed to explore the economic and industrial impacts as well as the prospects for achieving technology transfer associated with the implementation of the Kyoto flexible mechanisms. Comprehensive…
This project explores the feasibility of an evaluation study regarding the operations of the German "Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit", a task force of the Federal Customs Administration. In particular, the project…
"EU-CONSENT" as a network of excellence for joint research and teaching will look at the construction of a new Europe especially from 2005-2008. It will address the question of the mutual reinforcing effects of…
The aim of this research project is to analyze the impacts of company taxation regarding cross-border business activities of multinational enterprises. Especially in Europe international business activities are of…