Environmental regulations have important repercussions on the labor market. One of these repercussions concerns employment and the question inhowfar environmental policies generate or destroy employment. This…
The aim of this study is to analyze fiscal policy in the euro area under the current institutional architecture of the Eurozone. In the first part, it will be investigated to what extent automatic stabilizers have…
ZEW recently conducted a policy evaluation of subsidies for vocational training on the market for apprenticeships commissioned by the Federal ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS). The evaluation of the…
This project aims at analysing the research and innovation performance of Switzerland compared to other regions of similar size and economic structure. The project focuses on the following foour indicator areas:
The evaluation will analyse how ERDF support is invested with the aim to support SME development and innovation. The actual investments will be compared with available evidence on successful policies. Going…
Barely any quantitative research has been devoted yet to the labor market and health consequences of incarceration for political offenses, which seems particularly unfortunate against the background of Europe’s…
In this project, we conduct a macroeconomic analysis of effects induced by the increased use of biomass. In a first step, macroeconomic and sectoral indicators will be identified by a computable general…
The effects of the activities of the publicly financed scientific sector are complex. On the one hand there are immediately effective demand effects, which arise out of the direct demand by scientific institutions…
We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed and assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of asymmetric…
We study the effects of property taxes on housing markets and municipalities. Despite a broad and comprehensive literature on the incidence of property taxes, there is still neither an empirical nor a theoretical…
This study, based on the insights from the public finance literature, is to identify the key deficits of the German fiscal equalization system. The state of the literature on key questions and controversies will…
The decisions of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) have impacted the design of the EU member states’ national (individual and corporate) tax systems in several areas (e.g. exit taxation, thin capitalization…