Christoph Schröder Interactive Graphic 12. April 2017
Export performance: Unit labour costs shape international trade
Even Germany, as an export nation, has to compete for shares on its sales markets. The cost for businesses to manufacture goods plays a vital role in this process. This interactive graphic reveals the following: when unit labour costs increase in comparison to the competition, export performance generally declines.
Hubertus Bardt IW-Policy Paper No. 5 23. July 2024
Trump or Harris or ...? What Europe must prepare for
A few months before the presidential election in the USA, Donald Trump has a good chance of being re-elected. On the Democratic side, the incumbent president has withdrawn his candidacy after a long period of hesitation, while Vice President Kamala Harris is ...
Jürgen Matthes / Edgar Schmitz IW-Report No. 30 11. June 2024
Competitive pressure from China for German companies
A firm survey conducted in March/April 2024 as part of the IW-Zukunftspanel among around 900 German companies from the manufacturing and industrial services sectors shows that around 350 of the companies surveyed have Chinese competitors in their markets.
Jürgen Matthes / Edgar Schmitz IW
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