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Progress to Date and Companies’ Ongoing Need for Modernisation and Support
  • Regina Flake / David B. Meinhard / Dirk Werner ·
  • IW-Trends No. 2 ·
  • 23 April 2019

Digitalisation in Dual Vocational Training

This paper analyses the impact of the digital transformation on training activities in German enterprises.
Do mixed teams of old and experienced and young and restless employees foster companies innovativeness?
  • Andrea Hammermann / Matthias Niendorf / Jörg Schmidt at IAB Discussion Paper ·
  • External Publications ·
  • 7 March 2019

Age Diversity and Innovation: Do mixed teams of old and experienced and young and restless employees foster companies innovativeness?

In Germany, the labour force is ageing rapidly. At the same time, age heterogeneity within companies is rising. The literature on diversity argues that heterogeneity can have a positive as well as a detrimental effect on team outputs.
How Do Companies in Germany Evaluate their Data?
  • Barbara Engels ·
  • IW-Trends No. 4 ·
  • 25 February 2019

An Unknown Treasure: How Do Companies in Germany Evaluate their Data?

The collection, analysis and exploitation of data are key drivers of the digital economy. But the importance of data for corporate success is also increasing in industries that are not primarily associated with the digital economy.
Dwindling Growth, Rising Tensions
17 January
  • Dominik Enste ·
  • Event ·
  • 17 January 2019

The Exhausted Globalization: Dwindling Growth, Rising Tensions

Signs of crisis dominate current debates: Social cohesion is said to be dwindling, po-litical structures and multilateralism are eroding and the sustainability of economic conditions is questioned.
Homesharing in the German federal state of North Rhine - Westphalia
  • Vera Demary ·
  • IW-Report No. 3 ·
  • 14 January 2019

Homesharing in the German federal state of North Rhine - Westphalia

A professional, continuous short term letting of accommodation via home sharing platforms like Airbnb can lead to a reduction of housing space and therefore intensify housing shortages.
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon checks her Twitter feed.
  • Andrew Bassilakis / Matthias Diermeier / Henry Goecke at the CESifo Forum ·
  • External Publications ·
  • 3 January 2019

Converging Media versus Diverging Politics - the Brexit Twitter on Debate

Even after two years of Brexit negotiations no deal between the EU and the UK has been settled. Today, the negotiation’s outcome seems as unpredictable as ever. This paper analyses twitter content as a proxy for the political and public debate with respect to Brexit.
The EU’s Strategy for Promoting Gender Equality between Women and Men (2016–2019)
  • Jörg Schmidt ·
  • IW-Trends No. 3 ·
  • 26 September 2018

The EU’s Strategy for Promoting Gender Equality between Women and Men

This paper examines possible options for refining the indicators in three economic related policy areas of the EU’s strategy for gender equality between men and women (2016–2019). The objectives and measures of the EU strategy are not analyzed, but modifications and extensions of the empirical reporting are proposed.
The Economics of Platforms
  • Vera Demary / Christian Rusche ·
  • IW-Analyse No. 123 ·
  • 13 September 2018

The Economics of Platforms

Digital platforms already dominate the top 10 of the world’s most valuable firms. The specific characteristics of their business model, such as quick growth and market power soon after market entry, have provoked public discourse.
Skills, entrepreneurship and new business models
  • Jörg Bienert / Klaus-Günter Deutsch / Hans-Peter Klös / Klaus-Heiner Röhl ·
  • IW-Policy Paper No. 13 ·
  • 23 August 2018

Skills, entrepreneurship and new business models

This paper identifies key areas for leaders to keep the “German model” successful, from developing digitized business cases to future skill requirements and ways to foster entrepreneurship.
The Twitter Network of Top German Economists
  • Henry Goecke / Christopher Thiele / Nils Tschampel ·
  • IW-Trends No. 2 ·
  • 3 August 2018

Social Media: The Twitter Network of Top German Economists

The importance of social media is increasing rapidly, and with it their relevance as a potential communication channel for economists. On the one hand, taking the example of the microblogging service Twitter, it is possible to analyse how top German economists use social media to inform society on political and economic issues, debates and opinions. On the other hand, the network of links between the economists themselves is also of interest, as it creates a space for scientific exchange and discourse.
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