The profitability of vocational and further training activities differs with respect to the individual, firms’ and the economy’s point of view. These differences explain some of the observed heterogeneity of…
The objective of the project is the development of a method for the assessment of the quality of different transportation systems and service providers in Europe. The scope of the method for both the…
Technological progress in western economies has contributed to an immense rise in productivity, incomes and goods available over the last hundred years. Though not to the same extent as productivity and wages,…
The economic structural change taking place throughout the world today is progressively driven by the “intensification of knowledge”. Knowledge accumulation and an economy’s capability to learn, to generate and to…
The study provides theoretically and empirically well founded assessments of the employment effects of environmental innovations, which are as such closely tied to the increased adoption of integrated…
This study was centred around the assessment of non-compulsory, co-operative approaches as exemplified by the German industry´s "Erklärung der deutschen Wirtschaft zur Klimavorsorge". From a regulatory perspective…
After Phases I and II of the EU commissioned project concluded with a methodology for the evaluation of external costs and its implementation for selected EU member states, Phase III took to the further…
The subtask on "External Costs of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle and the Risk of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation" addresses an issue that has been neglected in the debate on external cost of energy so far. To assess the…
The task of the ZEW as part of this sub-commissioned project was to deliver comprehensive information on energy policy in Germany as required for the envisioned scenario projections by the project underwriter. To…