The spread of flexible working hours has increased sharply in recent years. Usually the decrease of overtime and subsequent reductions in costs are stated as a motivation for the implementation of flexible working…
Since the introduction of the Euro, Europe’s financial markets are often regarded as highly integrated. The study clarifies that this is not true, in particular with regard to retail financial services. The study…
Seemingly parallel to the increase in the evaluation of labour market policies runs the politically motivated desire for evaluation of policies in the environmental field. While, however, a host of studies works…
Innovation is widely considered to be a primary source of economic growth and policies to stimulate firm-level innovation are high on the agenda in most countries. This research project is aimed at the exploration…
Through June 25./26. 2001, the ZEW held an international workshop titled „Empirical Modeling of the Economy and the Environment“, celebrating 10 years since the ZEW's foundation and, at the same time, the 60.…
Entscheidungen für eine bestimmte Form der privaten Altersvorsorge sind notwendigerweise mit einem hohen Grad an Unsicherheit behaftet. Besondere Schwierigkeiten bereitet der lange Zeithorizont des…
The number of patent applications is an important indicator for the inventive activities of a country. R&D is considered to be the most important influence factor for inventions. In the nineties the number of…
The relationship between individual qualification and labour market success is analysed for women and men in France and Germany. Because on the one hand the educational systems and on the other hand the general…
Due to constantly rising social security budgets and negative incentives of social benefits on labour supply and growth, European social systems are put increasingly under pressure. In this situation, for social…
The aim of the summer school was to foster a research network amongst Western and Eastern European economist working on transition economics and capital markets. In the core workshop of 3 days J. Hanousek (CERGE,…