There is political concern about the role of education for growth. It is argued that the weak growth rates in Germany compared to the US since the 80s are possibly the result of an unfavourable mix of vocational…
The objective of this study was to examine different policy approaches towards mitigation of CO2 emissions in the transportation sector and relate some potential impacts for the Volkswagen AG (VW) from both…
Assessments of energy prices, market shares of the different energy carriers, market structures in a European electricity market, etc. are of vital importance to entrepreneurial and political planning in the…
In light of current demographic trends with growing numbers of dependent persons in need for long-term care (LTC), providing sustainable LTC arrangements becomes an increasingly important issue. According to the…
Nowadays, multinational corporations face the challenge of harnessing their local research and development activities (R&D) for the company as a whole. The heterogeneous organizational structure with its…
Conventional empirical studies on the returns to schooling assume that the return for an additional year of schooling is the same across individuals. In this project we relaxed this assumption by developing and…
In co-operation with the SEW Eurodrive GmbH, a tool for prognosticating the turnover of supporting products is being developed which will allow valid forecasts concerning a time frame from three up to six months.…
The research project aims at analyzing the success factors of training. We assume that training financed by companies is an indicator for success since companies obviously have a commercial incentive to invest in…