Conventional empirical studies on the returns to schooling assume that the return for an additional year of schooling is the same across individuals. In this project we relaxed this assumption by developing and…
In co-operation with the SEW Eurodrive GmbH, a tool for prognosticating the turnover of supporting products is being developed which will allow valid forecasts concerning a time frame from three up to six months.…
The research project aims at analyzing the success factors of training. We assume that training financed by companies is an indicator for success since companies obviously have a commercial incentive to invest in…
This project examined a unique sample of 600 independent young high-tech firms which were originally surveyed in the Anglo-German Foundation study of "The Rapid Internationalisation of High Tech Young Firms in…
The increase in correlations amongst, for example, international stock markets might be a factor that increases the correlations amongst business cycles and could also speed up the international transmission of…
In general, the aim of the project is to estimate the returns to education and the spread of wages for West - Germany, based on the wage und structural census (GLS) 1990 and 1995.In the first part of the project…
In a combined effort with the business information agency Creditreform, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) conducted a quarterly survey among service providers for the information society during 2002…
The target of this major-study is the development and evaluation of concrete approaches to integrate the transport sector into a CO2-Emissions-Trading-System. The three approaches, the upstream-approach with fixed…