ZEW Discussion Papers

Historically universities used to generate knowledge that was made available to the public at no further cost, as the research was financed by the government, and thus by a country’s tax paying inhabitants. The…

School entry age effects on (short-term) cognitive outcomes are well-documented in the economic literature for many countries. These studies do not consider school entry age effects on the development of…

EU companies face many tax obstacles in their EU-wide cross-border activities. These include the high compliance costs, the lack of cross-border loss-offset and the risk of double taxation as a result of…

There is no other economic activity, where costs and benefits are as far apart in time and where investors and beneficiaries are as detached as is the case for investments in human capital. The largest part of…

This paper measures the quality of apprenticeship training by comparing the wage difference between apprentices who change their employer or occupation directly after the training period with apprentices who…

This paper analyses long- and short-term co-movements between 14 international real estate stock markets based on bivariate testing for cointegration and correlation analysis. The results indicate that there…

This paper contributes to the debate whether academic scientists benefit from industry experience with respect to their academic research productivity as measured by publication outcome. One strand of the…

In the discussion on innovations for sustainable development, radical innovations are often seen as necessary to establish eco-efficient technological systems. It is assumed that only a regime shift from the…

In most Western, industrialised countries the workforce is ageing rapidly. In order to assess the possible consequences of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of…