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Daily (pre-) reading improves school performance
  • Wido Geis-Thöne ·
  • IW-Report No. 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.

IW Financial Expert Survey: Fourth Quarter 2019
  • Markus Demary ·
  • IW-Report No. 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.

Evidence-based decision-making in personnel management
  • Andrea Hammermann / Christopher Thiele ·
  • IW-Report No. 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.

Nursing relatives in Germany
  • Susanna Kochskämper / Maximilian Stockhausen ·
  • IW-Report No. 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.

Status quo and trends in e-commerce in Germany
  • Barbara Engels / Christian Rusche ·
  • IW-Report No. 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.

Humanities scholars on the labour market
  • Christiane Konegen-Grenier ·
  • IW-Report No. 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.

European office markets, user costs and speculative bubbles
  • Michael Voigtländer / Florian Schuster ·
  • IW-Report No. 31 ·
  • 15 August 2019

European office markets, user costs and speculative bubbles

Over the last years, prices for European office space have reached new peaks. This naturally provokes discussion about a possible overheating in the market. One approach to assess price development of real estate markets is the so-called „user cost approach”.

Second Quarter 2019
  • Markus Demary ·
  • IW-Report No. 15 ·
  • 18 April 2019

IW Financial Expert Survey: Second Quarter 2019

Pessimism determines the experts’ predictions for the second and third quarter of 2019 which can be inferred from the downward revisions of the experts’ forecasts. All in all, more downward revisions than upward revisions can be found in the forecasts indicating that the experts have interpreted the incoming information between end of December 2018 and end of March 2019 as bad news.

Empirical Analysis of Protectionist Attitudes in the EU
  • Galina Kolev ·
  • IW-Report No. 9 ·
  • 22 March 2019

Understanding Protectionism: Empirical Analysis of Protectionist Attitudes in the EU

A changing landscape in trade policy in recent years is undoubtedly related to changing voter preferences. Based on Eurobarometer survey data, the present paper investigates both the factors determining the level of support for protectionism and the striking inconsistency of responses to questions related to free trade and protectionism.

First Quarter 2019
  • Markus Demary ·
  • IW-Report No. 4 ·
  • 16 January 2019

IW Financial Expert Survey: First Quarter 2019

Pessimism determines the experts’ predictions for the first and second quarter of 2019 which can be inferred from the downward revisions of the experts’ forecasts.

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