The falling labour input is among the factors responsible fort the low German growth path lagging behind the growth experience in many other industrial countries. It is the objective of this project to look into…
The EU enlargement with ten new Member States considerably widens the Internal Market and opens it to participants with very different levels of economic development. In this context, this study analyses the…
In Germany and other EU countries it occurs that reforms which are regarded by many experts as wealth augmenting are not necessarily accepted by voters.The project looks into these phenomena of reform resistance…
The concept of potential output plays an important role in economic analysis as well as in economic policy discussions. Defined as the productive capacity that would be feasible under full utilization of all…
stakeholders in the sectors with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the sectoral innovation performance and challenges across the EU25 states. The fundamental question is to what extend and why…
For the measurement and international comparison of effective tax burdens, the ZEW has already achieved a great knowledge. The ZEW has developed own approaches (e.g. European Tax Analyzer) and applies other models…
The taxation of companies operating in more than one Member State in the European Union is undergoing a transformation. The scope of prevalent group taxation regimes in the Member States is currently still largely…
The Social Code II (SGB II) has been introduced on January 1st 2005 and governs the merging of the former Unemployment Assistance (UA) and Social Assistance (SA) for able-bodied recipients. This project originates…
The IVU Traffic Technologies AG has expanded the tax data base of the Ministry of Finance. The data base hosts data on tax revenue developments and estimates of tax revenue changes due to new laws.In the project,…