This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between firm-provided IT training and the firm's proportion of older workers. Using data from the ZEW ICT survey of the years 2004 and 2007, the results show that…

• Economic Outlook for Switzerland Continues to Deteriorate
• Eurozone: Survey Participants Continue to Anticipate Interest Rate Cuts
• United States: No brightening up of the Economic Picture Expected
• Japan: Economy…

Positiver Jahresauftakt bei Dienstleistern der Informationsgesellschaft

Der ZEW-IDI, Stimmungsindikator für den Wirtschaftszweig Dienstleister der Informationsgesellschaft, erreicht im ersten Quartal 2008 einen…

This paper empirically analyses whether both personal and corporate taxation have an impact on companies' capital structure decisions. We investigate the effect of the difference in taxation of debt and equity…

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Almost all papers on the motivation of German firms to train apprentices take as a stylised fact that training firms have to incur net costs. This notion stems practically from one source only - a series of…

Each year over three thousand R&D projects in more than two thousand firms received public grants from the German Federal Government. However, the number of subsidized firms does not reveal, whether it is always…

The recent years have been marked by massive price movements at the energy markets. Oil prices at the international energy exchanges have been rising strongly, and record high prices for oil and gas have been…