German State revenues generated by taxes and duties of employees with a vocational training or a university degree are considerably higher than the public expenditures invested in their education. On average,…
Without substantial reforms of the education systems and labour markets in Southern Europe, youths will continue to be much more affected by unemployment than the older generation of workers, even after the…
Without the existing government-funded support for families, the number of births in Germany would be notably smaller. This is the result of a recently published study conducted by the Centre for European…
The government debt crisis unleashed a wave of reforms in 2010 – some of which were implemented in an overly hasty manner – to stabilise the euro and the heavily indebted European countries. Even though the…
The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim ranks fourth among the approximately 200 institutes evaluated for the recently published "2013 Climate Think Tank Ranking" by the renowned…