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Digital skills are positively related to employment prospects and productivity of older workers. They also enable older workers to work in high-paying jobs. Fortunately, digital skills can be acquired and honed at all ages. Policymakers should incentivize employers to offer more training for the...
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Apprenticeship plans provide the basis for reliably and comprehensively classifying the skills of a large share of Germany's workforce. In total, we classify more than 13,000 different skills and the duration of learning each skill based on the apprenticeship plans. Workers who have acquired...
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Mentoring programs can strongly improve the transition from school to work for disadvantaged adolescents. Results from our field experiment indicate that a German mentoring program markedly boosts school achievement, patience, and labor-market orientation of students from highly disadvantaged...
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Universities exert a positive impact on the development of a region. They increase employment in high-tech and knowledgeintensive industries and raise long-term wages. Research results from universities are the basis for technological progress, new products, and start-ups. Framework conditions...
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Research and Development (R&D) is crucial to secure continued economic growth and prosperity. Private sector investments in R&D are typically too low, which constitutes a market failure. Governments use R&D tax credit schemes to compensate for this failure. Input-based tax credit schemes and...
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Technological sovereignty can be defined as the ability of a country to guarantee access at all times to the key technologies that are necessary to meet social priorities and needs. Despite having different competences, the countries analyzed focus largely on the same fields of technology that...
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The debate on phasing out internal combustion engines (ICE) has resurfaced in Germany amid an economic downturn; whether this is smart appears questionable. To monitor in real time where the industry is headed, analyzing job postings provides reliable insights into the ongoing strategic shifts...
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This study examines the overall economic costs arising from high levels of bureaucracy. We also shed light on whether and to what extent the digitalization of administrative processes can reduce the economic costs of bureaucracy.The results of our international analysis show that a fundamental...
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