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  • Events // 05.12.2024

    appear to play a muted role in explaining the gender inequality that follows. Policy makers commonly motivate earmarked paternity as a tool to change gender norms around parenthood by increasing men’s time [...] parenthood shapes gender norms. With parenthood, both men and women become less supportive of full-time working mothers, and more likely to believe that women are better able to care for small children. Prior

  • News // 21.10.2024

    things: They are often closely linked to politics and are partly privately funded. US think tanks work closely with science, but pursue clear political goals, in contrast to the more state-funded research [...] universities to give lectures. But I was also interested in understanding how economic policy advising works in the US. We at ZEW Mannheim are very active in policy advising ourselves, so I wanted to know how [...] Institute for International Economics, or just “Peterson”, is a leading think tank in policy advisory work, so visiting them was a must. I also gave a lecture at the Brookings Institution and went to Resources

  • Events // 20.11.2024

    informal work arrangements. The authors test for the existence of a demand for flexible work among unskilled casual laborers in Odisha, India, and investigate the underlying motivations. They

  • Publications // 01.10.2024

    elated motivations of investments among German firms, using longitudinal survey data linked with administrative worker–firm records. We find clear evidence for a shift toward remote work technologies

  • Events // 15.05.2024

    between work and personal life, where work involves an exchange of time and ”costly” effort for money. And yet, social scientists have long posited that individuals get meaning from their work that extends [...] offers one-day workshops that guide employees on how to connect their individual purpose with their work. The authors randomize the roll-out of the workshops among 3000 employees in 14 countries and track [...] performance and wellbeing. More than half of the performance effect is explained by higher worker motivation, and the rest comes from changes in worker selection via exit and worker job allocation via lateral

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    Press Releases // 29.11.2023

    perspective, various motivations play a role, such as remote work arrangements or demands from customers or clients. “Many companies also cite potential energy savings as motivation. Among those undertaking [...] undertaken digitalisation projects. Companies now cite potential energy savings more frequently as motivation for such projects than they did in 2020. However, companies face several challenges in their attempts [...] “Digital Economy” Unit. “This marks a significant increase in the relevance of energy savings as a motivation for digitalisation measures compared to our survey from 2020.”

  • Events // 29.11.2023

    Research Seminar studies the impact of online information provision to job seekers who are looking for work in occupations with relatively poor labor market prospects. The information is provided through a [...] alternatives compare to the job seekers’ current occupation of interest. A second treatment adds a motivational video aimed at addressing the psychological hurdles of switching to a different occupation. They

  • News // 07.06.2023

    place from 7 to 27 May. The goal was to pedal as many CO 2 -free kilometres as possible, whether for work or leisure. With great enthusiasm, the ZEW team saved approximately 427 kilograms of CO 2 , contributing [...] others are enjoying themselves too,” says Anna Straubinger, an economist at ZEW, explaining her motivation to participate. Sabrina Petruck, her colleague and the driving force behind the campaign at ZEW

  • News // 03.03.2023

    researchers from ZEW Mannheim will discuss and develop innovative solutions together with their highly motivated teams. - Highly relevant issues have been brought into the competition: from educational equity [...] equity in the digital age, financial education for young people and digitalisation of the world of work to apps in healthcare and ways to speed up public construction projects... Who will make it to the next

  • Projects // 01.03.2007

    The analysis of high-tech start-ups is one of the main areas of work covered by the department of Industrial Economics and International Management. However, ZEW studies to date, along with almost all [...] determine the type and extent of functions that are outsourced, and secondly to investigate the motives for a company to outsource particular tasks.From 2008, the ZEW High-Tech Start-Up

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