The TAB study under the heading of "Work and the Environment" aims at: -assessing developments in research, -providing an overview (comparison and evaluation of various approaches, methods, results) of existing…
The European Union is facing significant challenges with progressing monetary and economic integration, EU enlargement and increasing integration of the world economy. Against this background, the project analyses…
The number of empirical studies on the relationship between innovation and employment is still growing. But, the results of these studies are ambigous. Two important aspects are most of all neglected in existing…
The politically motivated end to the exploitation of nuclear power leads to discussions about the way in which this form of energy generation should be abandoned. In model experiment II of the Forum für…
Company decisions regarding locations, financing and investments are influenced in many different ways by taxation. From a methodological point of view the following preconditions have to be met in order to…
The accession to the European Union is often regarded as the last hurdle to be overcome in the transformation process of the Central and Eastern European states. Ten years after the demise of their planned…
In addition to the competition of European tax schemes, current discussion increasingly centres around the competition of social security systems. This subject addresses the financial restrictions as well as the…
The goal of this project is to examine the determinants and employment impact of firm foundations and self-employment from theoretical and empirical viewpoints. In the theoretical part we will devise a model in…
In the 1990’s the Federal Employment Service and the Federal Government in Germany spent over 400 billion DM on active labour market policy. Other public bodies also spend significant amounts on active measures.…
This projects aims to develop a new concept of selecting the first market entry for new products and processes. The concept suggests that for many innovations there are leading markets that initiate the…
The level of interest rates has been extraordinarily low in the last few years in Germany and provokes an analysis of the effects of lasting interest rate cuts on the income situation and demand on the part of…