Companies with works councils pay significantly higher wages than those without it. A comparison of companies with similar features regarding the economic sector, company size, etc. suggests that enterprises…
More than 31 per cent of the companies from the IT and media sector as well as from branches using IT and media technology (user branches) evaluate their current business situation as good. Another 53 per cent…
In the survey carried out by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in cooperation with Credit Suisse, the surveyed financial market experts continued to paint a very positive picture regarding the…
The first quarter of the new year is not expected to bring about any strong price movements on the German and European stock markets. Leading financial market analysts of German banks interviewed in the course…
At the meeting of the Sponsors' Association for Science and Practice of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) on 12 January 2007, Dr. Andreas Dulger, CEO of ProMinent Dosiertechnik GmbH, was confirmed…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany continued its recovery in January 2007. Compared with minus 19 points in December, the indicator’s current level of minus 3.6 point is nevertheless still far…
The training intensity among IT-related service providers is high: almost 80 per cent of all companies in this economic sector train apprentices in one or more professions. Displaying a training intensity of 90…
Dr. Hans Freudenberg, Head of Ministry Department at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs, and Dr. Rainer Hägele, Head of Ministry Department at the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts…
The ZEW-IDI, sentiment indicator for the economic sector IT-related service providers, has slightly increased by 0.2 points in the fourth quarter 2006 and now reaches a value of 64.3 points. The business…