The project will deal with institutional reforms for a more resistant euro area. In particular, the potential and the detailed construction of independent economic policy advisory boards for euro countries will be…
This project examined the midterm effects of additional career assistance and alternative transition paths after German lower track secondary school.We used a control group approach for the impact evaluation of…
ZEW researchers provided research support to the independent advisory board of the German stability council. They assist the council organizationally and contentwise with the preparation of its biannual…
In the Science4KMU research project, cooperation partners investigate the obstacles to technology transfer. The goal is to develop a model for the cooperation between research organisations and R&D-intensive small…
Witnessing stock-market history in the making creates a vivid story, but does not provide valuable information for forming return expectations. However, using a unique dataset about the timing of professionals'…
In this project, we examined to what extend firms in different inustries in Germany rely on crowdworking over time. Crowdworking describes the allocation of usually internal business tasks and projects via online…
The social market economy in Germany has long been associated with ensuring prosperity and social inclusion. Given growing income and wealth inequality, the question of sustainability of this economic role model…
Das deutsche Steuer- und Transfersystem wird immer wieder als wachstums- und anreizfeindlich kritisiert. Internationale Organisationen wie die OECD bemängeln regelmäßig die hohe Belastung kleiner und insbesondere…
The majority of companies in Germany are family companies. They are not only represented in the SME sector, but a significant portion also among the large companies with more than 50 million Euro in annual sales.…
The goal of the project is to collect and to structure economic data for the cluster ICT, media, cultural economy for the purpose of statistical analyses. The cluster ICT, media, cultural economy includes…
In contrast to the German tax law there are no child allowances in the social insurance. In this project we analyze their introduction, limited to the statutory pension insurance, using the ZEW tax-transfer…