This paper examines how municipal taxes respond to the local impact of a labor market shock. The analysis exploits a commuting policy that liberalized cross-border labor markets between Switzerland and the EU. The reform was implemented at a time of skilled labor shortages and led to a...

Die Studie schreibt Indikatoren zur Qualifikationsstruktur der Erwerbstätigen, zur hochschulischen Bildung sowie zur individuellen und betrieblichen Weiterbildung fort. Bei der Qualifikationsstruktur der Erwerbstätigen zeichnet sich Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich durch einen eher...

Die Studie schreibt Indikatoren zur Qualifikationsstruktur der Erwerbstätigen, zur hochschulischen Bildung sowie zur individuellen und betrieblichen Weiterbildung fort. Bei der Qualifikationsstruktur der Erwerbstätigen zeichnet sich Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich durch einen eher...

Die Studie zu Bildung und Qualifikation wird 2022 als Kurzstudie vorgelegt. Sie enthält wie in den Vorjahren die zentralen Indikatoren zur Qualifikationsstruktur der Erwerbstätigen im internationalen Vergleich. Erneut zeigt sich, dass der Anteil der Erwerbstätigen mit formal hohen...

Deutschland wird beim Strom zu einer Hochpreisinsel. Importrisiken bei Energie verschlechtern die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des Landes. Gerade für energieintensive Branchen wird der Standort sehr unattraktiv. Zu diesen drei Ergebnissen kommt eine neue Preis- und Risiko-Analyse vom ZEW Mannheim und...

Deutschland wird beim Strom zu einer Hochpreisinsel. Importrisiken bei Energie verschlechtern die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des Landes. Gerade für energieintensive Branchen wird der Standort sehr unattraktiv. Zu diesen drei Ergebnissen kommt eine neue Preis- und Risiko-Analyse vom ZEW Mannheim und...

Foreign capital plays a key role in a nation’s economic development. Accordingly, foreign direct investment (FDI) is viewed as a driving factor for economic growth. Since the establishment of China's Free Trade Zones (FTZs) in 2013, investors and the government alike have failed to fully...

For a long time, it was assumed that hard location factors (e.g. workforce, land) were the primary influence on the location decisions of firms. In the course of the tertiarization of the economy and linked increases in the qualification of employees as well as changes in values and timemodels,...

The article is devoted to identifying the features of Warsaw as a global city and its role in attracting transnational economic factors to Poland on the example of foreign direct investments. According to theoretical views on the role of global cities, it is they that provide the localization of...

Die Digitalisierung der Lebens- und Arbeitswelt wirkt sich grundlegend auf den Tourismus aus und hat bereits neue Markt- und Kommunikationsformen hervorgebracht. Verreist wird aber weiterhin analog. Die Anforderungen an einen Tourismus 4.0 sind hoch, aber längst nicht erfüllt: Neue...

Examining the relationship between factor endowments and production patterns using international and Japanese regional data, we provide the first empirical confirmation of Ethier's correlation approach to the Rybczynski theorem. Moreover, we find evidence of substantial production indeterminacy....

This paper examines how employment protection legislation affects location decisions of multinationals. Based on a simple theoretical framework, we estimate an empirical model, using OECD-data on bilateral FDI-flows and employment protection indices. We find that, while an "unfavourable"...

This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market regulation. We demonstrate that right-to-manage bargaining predicts higher returns for FDI than does...

This paper looks at the trade off between investment incentives and exit costs for the location of foreign direct investment (FDI). This issue does not appear to have been tackled in much detail in the literature. The analysis considers the effect of profit taxation (as a measure of investment...

This paper contributes to empirical research in entrepreneurship by focusing on the link between two stylized facts that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other countries: Entry rates differ between regions, and the propensity to become an entrepreneur is influenced by...

Multinational enterprises are often accused to have a preference for investing in countries in which the working populations' civil and political rights are largely disregarded. This paper presents an empirical investigation of the popular "political repression boosts FDI" hypothesis and arrives...

We analyse a three-year panel data set of Russian firms spanning from 2000 to 2002 and we investigate the effect of regional institutional and economic factors on entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on a novel database and exploits inter-regional variation in a...

While the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries is a welcome development, the question remains as to the impact of these resource inflows on economic development. This study posits that a key channel of the impact of FDI on development is through its effects on...

Our study examines home drivers of China’s regional outward FDI. We propose a theoretical framework that incorporates an extended Investment Development Path (IDP) theory, home locational constraints, policy incentives and geographic factors. Empirically, we employ the Bayesian Averaging...

Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the...

Several papers have proven that the institutional environment of the receiving country can influence the choice to establish an FDI. Property rights theory suggests that contract enforcement matters differentially across sectors. This paper is the first attempt to test whether institutions...

Die Digitalisierung der Lebens- und Arbeitswelt wirkt sich grundlegend auf den Tourismus aus und hat bereits neue Markt- und Kommunikationsformen hervorgebracht. Verreist wird aber weiterhin analog. Die Anforderungen an einen Tourismus 4.0 sind hoch, aber längst nicht erfüllt: Neue...

Der Standortvergleich wird im Auftrag der Stiftung Familienunternehmen seit 2006 alle zwei Jahre durch das ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung erhoben. Basis sind internationale und nationale Statistiken. Diese werden daraufhin geprüft, in welchem Umfang ein Standort...

The effect of regulation on a dominant firm to protect fringe firms in a local market -- Corporate taxation and regional economic development in Japan: A panel analysis of prefectural-level data -- Economies of scale and culmulative causation -- Firms' human resource management for local economy...

"The remote work revolution presents a unique opportunity for higher education institutions to reinvent themselves and become talent magnets.In Knowledge Towns, David J. Staley and Dominic D. J. Endicott argue that the location of a college or university is a necessary piece of any region's...

Which housing characteristics are important for understanding homeownership rates? How are housing characteristics priced in the rental and owner-occupied markets? And what can the answers to the previous questions tell us about economic theories of homeownership? Using the English Housing...

Which housing characteristics are important for understanding homeownership rates? How are housing characteristics priced in the rental and owner-occupied markets? And what can the answers to the previous questions tell us about economic theories of homeownership? Using the English Housing...

This chapter focuses on contexts of entrepreneurship, in particular geographical contexts, and entrepreneurial agency. The twin concepts space and place are key in understanding geographical contexts for entrepreneurship, not least because place does not exist without physical space. Important...