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A firm survey conducted in March/April 2024 as part of the IW-Zukunftspanel among around 900 German companies from the manufacturing and industrial services sectors shows that around 350 of the companies surveyed have Chinese competitors in their markets.

Jürgen Matthes / Edgar Schmitz IW

As the German population ages, the country’s statutory pension scheme, which is financed on a pay-as-you-go basis, requires higher and higher contributions while the level of pensions is falling.

Jochen Pimpertz / Ruth Maria Schüler IW

This study, based on the IW-People Survey 2024, shows that around 62% of Germans consider the election of the European Parliament to be important. This is the result of around 5,200 respondents. The proportion is therefore roughly as high as the voter turnout in 2019.

Matthias Diermeier / Judith Niehues / Samina Sultan IW

In this study an analytical scheme is developed to operationalise the objective of strategic autonomy in a cost-effective way.

Jürgen Matthes IW

Using the classification system from the European Patent Office (EPO), we identify almost 600,000 patent applications for fourth industrial revolution technologies from 1986 to 2015.

Armin Mertens / Marc Scheufen in European Journal of Law and Economics IW