ZEW Discussion Papers

The British foreign exchange reserves decreased by 40 percent during the period August 1996-December 1999 although the Pound Sterling is considered a floating exchange rate since it left the EMS in 1992. Since…

The lack of working hours flexibility is regarded as an important hindrance for work-sharing in Germany. Surveys show that employees often work more hours than they actually desire to. Given these indications…

During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially business services are believed to be one of the main drivers of technical changes and economic…

Over the last decades manufacturers have outsourced service inputs and shared resources with competitors. As a result, service inputs have been the fastest growing input factor in German manufacturing, followed…

In der Diskussion um die Reform der föderalen Finanzverfassung wird oft eine Stärkung der Steuerautonomie der Länder gefordert. Seitens der Befürworter wird die damit verbundene Ausweitung der…

Der Reduktion der Arbeitslosigkeit kommt ein hoher Stellenwert in der wirtschaftspolitischen Debatte in Deutschland zu. Diese Studie beschreibt die Höhe und Strukltur der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschaknd und…

A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage di erences over a long time period is missing for West Germany. Using an empirical approach which takes into account explicitely changes of wage…

Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empiri- cal evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive…