In the coming five years banks and insurance brokers are likely to see not only a fall in employee numbers, but also a change in the qualifications held by their employees. The majority of firms in the…
Modern information and communication technologies (ICT) are extremely widely used by business-related service providers in Germany. Individual sectors, however, exhibit different ICT infrastructures.
In the second quarter of 2001, the annual rate of growth in turnover of business-related service providers fell by 1.3 per cent, to a value of 3.0 per cent. The economic stabilisation seen in the first quarter…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment derived from the ZEW Financial Market Survey has increased again in July. It currently lies at minus 1.9 points. This corresponds to an increase by 6.2 points within a…
IT, technical, consulting and financial service providers are the weak spot in the East German innovation system. Whereas East German enterprises on the whole have largely adjusted to the West German level in…
Company takeovers are likely to increase considerably from 2002 onwards. This is the result of the monthly ZEW Financial Market Survey by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim. The survey…
On the one hand, 19 per cent of Eastern Germans who were aged 25 or older in 1990 experienced material loss as a result of the German reunification. In the period from 1991 to 1998, they achieved on average a…
The innovation activities of German service providers are by no means primarily aimed at reducing costs. Businesses consider it much more important that they develop new processes and behaviours in order that…