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The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany remains almost unchanged in October 2009. It slightly declines by 1.7 points and now stands at 56.0 points after 57.7 points in the previous month. This value…

The economic crisis reached the service providers of the information society in Germany at the beginning of the year 2009. By now about 88 percent of all businesses in this economic sector, which comprises the…

The ZEW-IDI, a sentiment indicator for the economic sector service providers of the information society in Germany, which includes the knowledge intensive service providers as well as the ICT-service providers,…

Dual apprenticeship training provides future professionals with marketable qualifications. Professionals who leave the company after their apprenticeship training and change their employer after the training…

Manager salaries and bonus payments are important topics at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh this week and during the federal election campaigns in Germany. Disincentives for bank manager salaries are blamed for…

The upward trend of the ZEW-Erste Group Bank Sentiment Indicator for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) continues in September 2009. Expectations concerning the economic development over the next half year…

According to the Financial Market Test Switzerland, carried out by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in cooperation with Credit Suisse (CS), economic expectations continued to brighten up…

Export world champion Germany is in need for well trained professionals to maintain and to increase its wealth. At the beginning of September, the OECD report 'Education at a glance' was published containing…