The aim of this study is to find out if personnel managers encounter a shortage of engineers. On the basis of a written questionnaire it is asked if German establishments are suffering from a shortage of engineers…
On behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Federal Statistical Office conducts the project „Disclosure of Official Business Survey Data”. The project’s aim is the development of ways…
The research project JETSET focused on emissions trading as an instrument of environmental regulation in the European context in an interdisciplinary manner. In the first project phase four basis projects were…
This project assessed the impact of new public measures to foster mediation of the unemployed into employment. Based on micro- and macroeconomic data effects of mediation vouchers, the delegation of mediation to…
This project aims at evaluating the efficiency in terms of job placement of the instruments used within the framework of the so-called “alliance for jobs” in the county of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald. Using hazard…
The ZEW produces, in the order of Finanzplatz e.V., Frankfurt a. M., a brochure that will serve as an orientation guide for foreign investors, issuers and financial services providers. The brochures will describe…
The wave of corporate mergers during the nineties has sparked new interest in economic analyses of the preconditions and consequences of increasing market concentration. Traditionally, static microeconomic models…
The planned reform of fiscal equalisation among Swiss cantons is partly based on the Aggregated Tax Base (ATB), which represents the fiscal capacity of different cantons. As some types of companies are favourably…
In Germany, over a third of all new hires are based on fixed-term contracts. However, the effects of fixed-term contracts on individual career paths and the employment conditions of fixed-term workers have not…