Research Projects

Increasing the labor force participation of older people - Survey evidence on women's behavioral adjustments

Increasing the employment rate of older people has the potential to significantly counteract the skills shortage and strengthen the financial basis of social security. Empirical analyses show that this potential is particularly high among women nearing retirement, who often work part-time or in mini-jobs, or are unemployed. The aim of this project is to investigate: a) why employment rates are...

Increasing the labor market participation of the elderly - survey evidence on behavioral adjustments of pensioners

Increasing the employment rate of older people has the potential to significantly counteract the skills shortage and strengthen the financial basis of social security. Empirical analyses show that the potential is high among retirees after reaching the regular retirement age, as they continue to work only to a limited extent. Increasing the employment rate of older people has the potential to...

Indicators for evaluating international performance in service sectors (INDICSER)

The INDICSER project has the aim to identify and develop performance indicators of service sectors in attempting to understand economic developments in these sectors and their impact on aggregate growth. Therefore, the main objective of the INDICSER project is to develop indicators which are able to provide information on the determinants of growth in service sectors in the European Union. To this...

Indicators on the Economic Impact of Environmental Protection

Indikatorensystem zur technologischen Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands

Individual careers and the development of old-age income in the demographic change - a microsimulation study for Germany

We analyse the impact of unemployment and flexible employment relationships (e.g. part-time and marginal employment) on the development of public pensions in Germany. On the basis of a combined data set that integrates register data from the German public pension insurance and SOEP data, we aim to quantify the expected changes in individual careers over different cohorts. Using the combined data...

Industry in the City

Inheritance tax reform

The aim of this research project is to examine the revenue and distribution effects of inheritance tax reforms proposed.The tax privileges for business assets (including the exemption requirement test) and for rented apartments are to be abolished. In order to reduce liquidity impact the tax liability is to be deferred or annuitized with interest. Furthermore, personal allowances and the tax rate...

INNODRIVE (Intangible Capital and Innovations: Drivers of Growth and Location in the EU)

It is widely recognised that intellectual assets are major determinants of the generation of innovation and thus of the enhancement of growth, employment and competitiveness of the EU. The importance of R&D and innovation is also explicitly acknowledged in the "Lisbon process". However, our knowledge of the contribution of intangibles to economic performance is still incomplete. While firms...

INNOMSME

Greek and German micro, small and medium sized businesses (MSMEs) are the backbone of both the Greek and the German economy, significantly contributing to the economic performance of the two countries. In order to be able to remain competitive in a globalized world, these MSMEs will have to increase their absorption capacity, accumulate new knowledge, and reinforce their innovation effort....

Innovation and Coordination - "Are Product Preannouncements Anticompetitive?"

The international project held together by the management specialists, economists, psychologists and statisticians is aimed at the development of the basic theoretical concepts, which would be helpful in the analysis of the process of technological innovations and the market entry based on these innovations. There are three modules in the project, which concentrate on the problems of the...

Innovation capability analysis-city of Luckenwalde

The city of Luckenwalde belongs along with four out of Brandenburg's 16 branch competences to regional growth areas. The branches with exceptional growth potential in the regional growth area Luckenwalde are biotechnology, automotive, food industry, as well as metal. The main goal of this project is to examine and evaluate innovation capabilities and potentials, as well as the determinants and...

Innovation Framework for Privacy and Cyber Security Market Opportunities

Significant opportunities exist for innovation in the privacy and cyber security (PACS) technology space, yet complex market, regulatory, policy, commercial, and economic considerations create several barriers to transforming research outputs/assets into market-centric product and service applications. In response, Innovation Framework for Privacy and Cyber Security Market Opportunities (IPaCSO)...

Innovation Indicator for Germany 2009

The study "Innovation Indicator for Germany 2009" was performed by Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (the DIW, German Institute for Economic Research). It offers scientifically-based calculations and evaluations about the current innovation capacity of Germany in an international comparison, taking new research results and single indicators into account. In the report, which has appeared...

Integrated tax and transfer system

In this study, we analyze a reform to better balance income taxation, social contributions and means-tested social benefits. In order to relieve low-wage earners and middle classes, the employee contributions to social security are to be integrated into the personal income tax and the top income tax rates are to be increased. In addition, families with low and middle income are to be relieved and...

Integrating Research Infrastructure for European expertise on Inclusive Growth from data to policy (InGRID-2)

Referring to the increasingly challenging EU2020-ambitions of Inclusive Growth, the objectives of the InGRID-2 project are to advance the integration and innovation of distributed social sciences research infrastructures (RI) on ‘poverty, living conditions and social policies’ as well as ‘working conditions, vulnerability and labour policies’. InGRID-2 will extend transnational on-site and...

Interactions between bank-specific risk and macroeconomic performance

The global financial crisis has demonstrated that risk at the level of individual financial institutions can harm the stability of the financial system as a whole and, in turn, macroeconomic performance. Building on the concept of granularity, this project investigates how risk at the level of large banks and macroeconomic performance are related. Moreover, it will be explored how regulatory...

International comparison of R&D-intensive industries and knowledge-intensive services

As part of this research project DIW Berlin will use "output indicators" to evaluate the technological capability of Germany. Market results for research-intensive goods and knowledge-based services are analysed according to foreign trade streams as well as overall production and productivity trends. The study aims to establish Germany's position against its key competitors in terms of the supply...

International Comparison of the Sectoral Knowledge Capital

International R&D locations

A free download of the study (in German only) is available at: http://www.e-fi.de/indikatorenstudien.html