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Die Webscraping-Analyse erfasst erstmalig den gesamten Kammerbezirk Osnabrück-Emsland-Grafschaft Bentheim bzgl. Online-Präsenzen der Handwerksbetriebe. Die Websites werden hinsichtlich direkter KI-Nähe, fortgeschrittener Digitalisierung sowie indirekter KI-Betroffenheit analysiert. Dazu wird...

Der Jahresmonitor 2023 zeigt, dass Familienunternehmen aufgrund steigender Regulierung und hoher Bürokratielasten die Attraktivität Deutschlands als Investitionsstandort weiterhin als abnehmend bewerten und zunehmend in Auslandsmärkte wie die USA und Polen investieren. Gleichzeitig verdoppelt...

We investigate the role of industry and region-specific conditions for the survival of new businesses in innovative and in other manufacturing industries. The data comprises all German manufacturing start-ups of the 1992 to 2005 period. In contrast to studies for some other countries, we find...

In 2005, the unemployment compensation for long-term unemployed was reduced in Germany. We examine how this reform affected the transition probability to employment. Additionally, we inspect how this effect varies over unemployment duration. We estimate proportional hazard models using German...

This paper investigates the determinants of German long-term unemployment. In particular a microeconometric event history analysis will be carried out to examine what impact personal characteristics such as age, gender, education, etc. or factors such as receiving unemployment benefits have on...