The study aims at analysing and evaluating goals, measures, successes and obstacles regarding the internationalisation of German research and science. This covers international activities of individual…
The availability of external capital is of central importance for German small and medium-sized enterprises. In the bank-based financial system of Germany bank loans have an important role for the financial…
The project is concerned with so-called restarts, i.e. the firm foundations of previously failed entrepreneurs. The data base is comprised by the ZEW Start-Up Panels. On the one hand the typical characteristics of…
The focus of the research project INTERDIG was on the internationalisation of the IT-related services sector, especially of IT service providers and software firms in Germany. The aim was to develop concrete…
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…
The project had the purpose to develop a ranking of investment locations from the point of view of family controlled companies.The resulting ranking among 14 locations shows a discomforting 11th rank for Germany…
In this project the knowledge of employer and worker heterogeneity shall be deepened and especially the effects of heterogeneity on wages, productivity, employment changes and labour demand are to be examined. 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,…