Against the background of the need of a higher effective retirement age, the study surveys the current position of the elderly in the German labor market. It discusses the conditions that would help fostering the…
The goal of the project is to analyse the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) for firms’, sectors’ and countries’ resilience in times of economic crisis.Firms using ICT in a smart way may be…
The objective of the project is to develop an econometric structural equilibrium search model that can be used for ex-ante simulations of the introduction of a uniform minimum wage in Germany. The target of the…
This project analyses the interaction between the recent economic crises in Europe and the incentives for private provision of online public goods. Focusing on Wikipedia, one of the most salient examples of an…
One uncontroversial conclusion from four years of European debt crisis is the need for a general overhaul of fiscal governance. However, any reforms must be based on a sound understanding of the (fiscal) …
The technological potential for separating work from the workplace is constantly increasing. Mobile devices, mobile internet access and remote access to firms’ internal networks and data allow for working anywhere…
Policies that promote start-ups are increasingly taken up by governments as measures to fight unemployment and to overcome crises. However, it remains uncertain whether short-term policies like that also…
This study assesses individual and fiscal returns to educational investments in Germany, based on the ZEW microsimulation model. Tertiary education is compared to higher secondary and vocational education and…
The objective of this project is to quantify the credit restrictions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) financed by banks that were heavily affected by the 2009 financial crisis.
The aim of this study is to update a report on key innovation indicators for the chemical industry for the year 2014. In a concise way, the study offers an overview on the state and recent developments in research…
In the context of a growing international economic integration, taxation becomes a more and more central factor in the competition of regions and countries for international investment and skilled employees. …
In this project, we aim to identify the medium- and long-term causal effects of attending kindergarten in Germany. More specifically, we will analyse empirically whether longer kindergarten attendance results in…