WWWforEurope (Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe) started in April 2012 as a four-year research project within the 7th Framework Programme funded by the European Commission. The project aims at contributing to…
In the urban centres Munich, Berlin, the Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, Hamburg, and Cologne/Düsseldorf, the number of newly founded ICT companies is especially high. The start-up intensity, i.e. the number of…
Demographic change, climate change, and the current state of public finances inevitably call for further reforms in Germany. But is there acceptance for such reforms at the moment? In a study on behalf of…
In November 2012, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the KfW Bankengruppe jointly presented the current report on the KfW/ZEW Start-Up Panel. Under the title "Start with Strategy – Labour…
The German economy is on the upswing. The institutes forecast an increase of the real gross domestic product by 3.5 percent in 2010 and 2.0 percent in 2011. The situation on the labour market will continue to…
Some 80 per cent of German households have an overdraft credit. According to experts of consumer protection organisations, the interest rates on overdraft credits are too high. A study presented in Berlin on…
From July 3 until September 28, 2012, Alina Botezat, PhD, will be visiting researcher at the ZEW Research Department "Labour Markets, Human Resources and Social Policy". She is a researcher at the Gh. Zane…
