The impact of the Corona pandemic on businesses and employees presumably depends, among other things, on how digitized businesses already were before the pandemic. If digitization proves to be an instrument for…
Despite the socio-political importance that occupational pension schemes have had since 2001, the incomplete evidence, lack of transparency, and lack of databases have been criticized regularly during the last…
The increasing personal responsibility in retirement provision poses a challenge for many households. Research has shown that especially people with low levels of education, income, and financial knowledge have…
The “Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau” (KfW) has been establishing a firm panel on the basis of paper-and-pencil interviews which is representative of medium-sized and large companies since 2002. Companies of all…
Within the scope of a cooperation between the Research Data Centre of the Federal Employment Agency at the IAB (BA-FDZ), Creditreform e.V. and ZEW, the operational data of the Federal Employment Agency, or more…
The corona pandemic and subsequent measures led to financial difficulties for people who were particularly affected by the economic consequences of the crisis, as well as for households that were already living…
Following pension reforms aiming to reduce the demographic burden on pay-as-you-go pension schemes, Germany and many other countries introduced substantial tax benefits to set incentives for third pillar…
In the coalition agreement of 2018, the federal government set the goal to provide a pension information covering all three pillars of retirement income. This means that the public pension entitlements as well…
Financial Literacy plays a central role for individual financial well-being and inclusion. It can also play an important role for the stability of financial markets and the effectiveness of central bank…
Against the background of the strong immigration to Germany in recent years, the role of the welfare state and its legitimacy are discussed controversially. On the one hand, social policy supports the integration…
The purpose of the project is to measure the digitalisation of the German economy and to track its development over time. The results will serve as an…
In this project we will first train a computer vision model from ground up. The resulting machine learning model will be the first to be fully optimised for the built environment, offering an alternative…