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Companies and their employees are facing a variety of challenges: New opportunities due to technological progress, global economic relations and global competition, demographic change and the skilled labor situation - and unfortunately also crisis-ridden events in the world.

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Our colleagues in the IW's thematic clusters are constantly faced with the task of showing how companies in Germany are positioned, what lines of development they are facing and whether politicians are taking appropriate measures to support entrepreneurial activity and thus the German economy.

The IW Panels cooperation cluster designs and organizes surveys of companies and employees for the experts in the topic clusters or external clients. In addition to the IW Future Panel and the IW Personnel Panel, the KC also provides individual surveys.

We accompany the entire survey process from conception, budgeting and proposal preparation, through questionnaire design, programming and implementation of the online survey, to data cleansing, extrapolation and evaluation. As survey experts, we always seek an intensive professional exchange with the experts in the topic clusters.

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Sabine Köhne-Finster

Sabine Köhne-Finster

Senior Economist for surveys and training research

Tel: +49 221 4981-862 Sabine Köhne-Finster
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Thomas Schleiermacher

Dr. Thomas Schleiermacher

Senior Economist for Surveys and IW Data Protection Coordinator

Tel: +49 221 4981-877
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Edgar Schmitz

Senior Economist for Surveys

Tel: +49 221 4981-733
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Susanne Seyda

Dr. Susanne Seyda

Head of the Research Unit IW-Befragungen

Tel: +49 221 4981-740

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Critical Choices: How Malaysia and Germany can Navigate Shifting Energy Geostrategy
External Publication 26. October 2026

Critical Choices: How Malaysia and Germany can Navigate Shifting Energy Geostrategy

Stewart Nixon* / Malte Küper in Policy Ideas

Malaysia and Germany, as constructive and reliable participants in globally interdependent energy (as well as trade and financial) markets, face an increasingly hostile, volatile, and uncertain environment surrounding energy choices.

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Fiscal Effects of Having Children
IW-Report No. 43 15. October 2026

Fiscal Effects of Having Children

Wido Geis-Thöne

The fiscal effects of children are relevant to various areas of policymaking.

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Event 14. October 2026 Alexander Radunz

Expert Workshop on the Industrial Accelerator Act

The German Economic Institute (IW) and Frontier Economics are pleased to invite you to a rapporteur & stakeholder workshop on the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) in Brussels.

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Universal entitlement, unequal provision: childcare in segregated German cities
External Publication 13. October 2026

Universal entitlement, unequal provision: childcare in segregated German cities

Matthias Diermeier / Jan Engler* / Melinda Fremerey / Leon Wansleben* in Journal of Social Policy

One mechanism driving persistent inequalities in childcare provision, despite rising investments and a substantial expansion of childcare facilities, may consist in the locational choices of providers, who eschew poorer neighbourhoods.

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A Comparison of Public Revenues Across the Federal States
IW-Report No. 41 12. October 2026

A Comparison of Public Revenues Across the Federal States

Björn Kauder

To ensure equivalent living conditions, the federal government influences the revenues of the states and municipalities. Under the fiscal equalization system, financially weak states receive surpluses in the distribution of sales tax revenues, while financially strong states must accept shortfalls.

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