Companies and their employees are facing a variety of challenges: New opportunities due to technological progress, global economic relations and global competition, demographic change and the skilled labor situation - and unfortunately also crisis-ridden events in the world.
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Our colleagues in the IW's thematic clusters are constantly faced with the task of showing how companies in Germany are positioned, what lines of development they are facing and whether politicians are taking appropriate measures to support entrepreneurial activity and thus the German economy.
The IW Panels cooperation cluster designs and organizes surveys of companies and employees for the experts in the topic clusters or external clients. In addition to the IW Future Panel and the IW Personnel Panel, the KC also provides individual surveys.
We accompany the entire survey process from conception, budgeting and proposal preparation, through questionnaire design, programming and implementation of the online survey, to data cleansing, extrapolation and evaluation. As survey experts, we always seek an intensive professional exchange with the experts in the topic clusters.
Competitive pressure from China for German companies
Jürgen Matthes / Edgar Schmitz
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.
Matthias Diermeier / Judith Niehues / Samina Sultan
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
The German labor market has been growing since 2005. The dip in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic between 2020 and 2022 is an exception, as the German labor market has reached a record level of 45.9 million people in employment by 2023.
In 2023, half of the companies in Germany reported increasing problems in filling vacancies for management positions because employees are not aiming for a career. Larger companies are less affected than small companies.
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