IW-Reports

IW-Reports are scientific reports with methodological, empirical or regulatory backgrounds and offer space for statements of the scientists in policy advice. They appear exclusively online.

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Barbara Engels / Marc Scheufen ·
IW-Report Nr. 1 ·
15 January 2020

Competition Effects of the General Data Protection Regulation

The European General Data Regulation (GDPR) increases the level of protection of personal data and standardises it throughout Europe.

Sonja Beer / Jürgen Matthes / Christian Rusche ·
IW-Report Nr. 44 ·
19 December 2019

Decoupling Chimerica: Consequences for the European Union

The People’s Republic of China experienced a tremendous economic development within the last four decades. The increased economic power and political weight of China are challenging the USA and EU. Furthermore, the strategies used by China for its own development, e.g. broad-based industry policy with distortive subsidization, forced technology transfer or investment restrictions, are perceived as unfair, especially in the US, but to a large extent also in the EU.

Jürgen Matthes ·
IW-Report Nr. 43 ·
18 December 2019

The German Economy's Dependence on China for Foreign Trade

In the debate on whether Germany should position itself more robustly vis-à-vis China, it is sometimes pointed out that the German economy and above all individual German DAX companies are heavily dependent on China. Against this background, this report analyses the economic dependence of Germany (as a production location) on China in foreign trade.

Susanna Kochskämper ·
IW-Report Nr. 41 ·
25 November 2019

Is care becoming more and more expensive?

How have the price components in nursing homes - care rates, remuneration for accommodation and meals and investment costs – developed in recent years?

Wido Geis-Thöne ·
IW-Report Nr. 39 ·
7 November 2019

Daily (pre-) reading improves school performance

It is well known and not controversial that it is very conducive to the development of children, when they initially get read out regularly and later read for themselves. Nevertheless, there are no empirical studies for Germany that prove and quantify the long-term effects.

Markus Demary ·
IW-Report Nr. 37 ·
22 October 2019

IW Financial Expert Survey: Fourth Quarter 2019

Pessimism determines the experts’ predictions for the last quarter of 2019 and first quarter of 2020, which can be inferred from the downward revisions of the experts’ forecasts. More downward revisions than upward revisions indicate that the experts have interpreted the incoming information between end of June 2018 and end of September 2019 mostly as bad news.

Andrea Hammermann / Christopher Thiele ·
IW-Report Nr. 35 ·
2 October 2019

People Analytics: Evidence-based decision-making in personnel management

The data volume is growing fast. In 2018 33 Zettabytes of data were generated and the amount is expected to grow to 44 Zettabytes in 2020. Only a fraction of data in companies is used for improving decision-making. This hold true specifically for the HR department. Decisions in recruiting and talent management are nowadays mainly based on intuition and experience rather than hard facts.

Susanna Kochskämper / Maximilian Stockhausen ·
IW-Report Nr. 34 ·
17 September 2019

Nursing relatives in Germany

In this analysis, 2012 SOEP data was used to examine how many people in Germany have cared for their relatives and to what extent, and how this group can be described according to selected socio-economic characteristics such as age, gender, income, and assets.

Barbara Engels / Christian Rusche ·
IW-Report Nr. 33 ·
4 September 2019

Status quo and trends in e-commerce in Germany

However, e-commerce is not equally important in the individual product groups. Above all, food is still largely sold offline. In the near future, the importance of e-commerce is expected to increase further.

Christiane Konegen-Grenier ·
IW-Report Nr. 32 ·
4 September 2019

Humanities scholars on the labour market

With a share of 8.2 per cent of all students and a share of 5.6 per cent of all approximately nine million employed graduates, the humanities graduates, without considering the teaching graduates, represent a comparatively small group in study and employment. Their most striking difference to the average of graduates is their high proportion of women, which in turn leads to an above-average proportion of mostly voluntary part-time employment.