This study investigates the impact of public R&D subsidies on R&D investment of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany during the most recent economic crisis. Our analysis is based on firm-level…
Union representation has been in strong decline in most OECD countries with potentially important consequences for wages. What drives this decline? We try to answer this question by developing and implementing a…
Academic spin-offs are an important means for transferring skills, research results and technologies developed at universities to the for-profit private sector. Due to their origin from universities, spinoffs…
This paper quantifies the life-cycle incidence of key family policy measures in Germany. The analysis is based on a novel dynamic microsimulation model that combines simulated family life-cycles for a base…
