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Publications // 20.11.2024
over the last 100 years. Using novel data on economic activity in 163 labor market regions in West Germany, we find that nearly half of them experienced a reversal of fortune, moving from the lower to [...] ng) effect of industrialization explains most of the decline in regional inequality observed in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s and more than half of the current North-South gap in economic development
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News // 07.07.2023Germany’s largest high school competition on economic and social issues is in full swing. In regional preliminary rounds, school teams from all over Germany are currently competing for a spot in the national [...] - Fortunately, the team from Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium in Bad Dürkheim emerged victorious in the West regional finals. Mentored by ZEW researcher Marius Cziriak and Manuel Vogler from the University of
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News // 03.03.2023Germany’s largest high school competition for economic, ecological and social issues is entering a new round. This year’s kick-off events of YES! – Young Economic Solutions (formerly Young Economic Summit) [...] up public construction projects... Who will make it to the next round? The first step is the South-West Regional Final, which will be held at ZEW in Mannheim on 13 July. Here, all participating school teams
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News // 27.02.2023cases exceeding 80 percent. On the one hand, it is true that the West benefits from cheap Chinese products. On the other, this causes the West to make itself vulnerable – especially if confrontation between [...] Massive green industrial policy interventions in China and the United States have put Europe and Germany under pressure: they must reposition themselves to be more competitive and innovative. To avoid the [...] the world and deepen the single market instead of national go-it-alone solutions. In particular, Germany has a lot to do here. - The subsidy package of US President Joe Biden – the Inflation Reduction Act
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Projects // 01.01.2006
intensity of foundation activities, spatial disparities are clearly evident throughout Germany. A significant South-North and West-East divide as well as a high concentration of foundation activities in certain [...] sector with special emphasis on the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Germany as well as the analysis of the firm foundations regional distribution.Analysis of founders [...] description of the quantitative development and regional distribution of high-tech firm foundations in Germany. With respect to the analysis of firm characteristics, obstacles, success factors and risks a telephone
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Projects // 01.08.2005
1 to 2.5 in West Germany and from 2.3 to 2.9 in East Germany. In West Germany rising wage inequality has occurred mainly in the lower part of the wage distribu-tion, whereas in East Germany it has occurred [...] percent and the wage distribution in West Germany was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2004 average wage growth was 8 percent in West Germany and 28 percent in East Germany. In this period wage inequality for [...] ed 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, Between 1984
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Projects // 01.10.1998
comprises 12,000 firms having started between 1990 and 1993 in East and West Germany. The ZEW Foundation Panels for East and West Germany represent the parent population for the sample. In the survey, firm [...] early 1990s. Moreover, it focuses on the different development patterns of start-ups in East and West Germany, on the determinants of various market exit choices as well as on the factors that influence [...] the survey data set as well as information available in the ZEW Foundation Panels for East and West Germany. Our results confirm the influence of several determinants on the survival and growth of young
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Press Releases // 05.08.2022states, where gross average wages at the time of study in 2015 were significantly lower than in West Germany. From an economic policy perspective, this may not necessarily be a problem. “Less productive [...] first increase in 2017 did not significantly change the intensity of competition for companies in Germany. In labour market regions where more employees earned less than 8.50 euros per hour before the i