1159 Results
External publication | 2013 My Wage is Unfair! Just a Feeling or Comparison with Peers?
The article analyzes the connection between wage comparisons and the subjectively perceived fairness of wages. Based on the results of a large German household survey, it can be concluded that people who perceive their wages as unfair in the majority of cases also earn less than comparable persons with fair wages.
External publication | 2013 On the reform of the insolvency law in the area of residual debt discharge according to the government draft
In 1999, some 2.8 million households in Germany were considered over-indebted. Over-indebted persons, both consumers and the self-employed, can settle their old debts through out-of-court settlements, but also by legal means.
External publication | 2013 Medium-sized industrial companies assess economic policy conditions much better
The most important results of the twelfth survey wave of the BDI SME panel show that the economic activities of industrial SMEs have recovered with gratifying dynamism in autumn 2010.
IfM-Materialien | 2012 Public funding of company takeovers - necessity and design
This study investigated the question of what public support services are offered for successions in Germany and the extent to which state support is necessary.
IfM-Materialien | 2012 Analysis of the German immigration system with regard to the demand for skilled workers in medium-sized companies
Among other things, policymakers in Germany are relying on the immigration of highly qualified persons from third countries to fill gaps in skilled labor.
External publication | 2012 BDI Medium-sized Businesses Panel - Fall 2012
As part of a long-term study on industrial SMEs in Germany, the IfM Bonn surveyed a fixed group of industrial companies for the 16th time in autumn 2012 on their assessment of the economic situation and on topics relevant to daily politics and business management.
Schriften zur Mittelstandsforschung | 2012 Material employee participation - an option for medium-sized companies?
A number of positive effects are ascribed to material employee participation, i.e. both capital and profit sharing by employees.
External publication | 2012 The largest family businesses - Autumn 2012
As part of the study series "The largest family-owned companies in Germany", the IfM Bonn asked the opinion of the largest family-owned companies on the economic situation and current topics for the third time in autumn 2012.
External publication | 2012 Revisiting Procedural Utility: Evidence from European Survey Data
It is generally recognized that self-employed people are more satisfied in their job than employees. In the scientific literature this is regularly explained by the independence and autonomy of a self-employed person.
External publication | 2012 Nonlinear Effects of Comparison Income in Quit Decisions: Status versus Signal!
In the context of employee mobility, the question arises to what extent an employee's decision to terminate an employment contract depends on his relative wage position in the company. Previous studies on this problem have mainly investigated linear effects.
External publication | 2012 Relative Wage Positions and Quit Behavior: New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
In connection with the decision of employees to quit their previous job, the question arises whether the decision to quit depends more on status or future career prospects.
IfM-Materialien | 2012 Internationalization paths of medium-sized companies in Eastern Europe - internationalization process and location effects using the example of Lower Saxony's SMEs
For Western European companies in general and for Western European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in particular, the political and economic opening of the markets in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) at the beginning of the 1990s provided an important reason to intensify their activities in the Greater CEE region.
Facts and figures | 2012 The importance of small and medium-sized enterprises in energy-intensive industries
The IfM Bonn has examined the development of energy costs in industry for the years 2008 to 2010 and the importance of small and medium-sized energy-intensive industrial companies in 2010.
Facts and figures | 2012 Key figures for medium-sized companies in Eastern European EU countries
In the course of the EU enlargement in 2004 and 2007 ten Central and Eastern European countries joined the European Union (EU-10). The geographical proximity as well as the intensive trade relations with Germany gave the IfM Bonn the opportunity to determine size class-specific company key figures for the Eastern European EU countries for the first time.
IfM-Materialien | 2012 Company successions in Germany - Current trends
Since the last large-scale, nationwide company survey on the topic of succession was conducted in Germany in 1989, there was a need for up-to-date data.
IfM-Materialien | 2012 The importance of short-time work compensation in medium-sized companies
In the course of the economic crisis in 2008/09, short-time working was made significantly more attractive in accordance with § 170 SGB III and the maximum period of entitlement was greatly extended.
Facts and figures | 2012 Freelance start-ups in Germany - Evaluation of data from the tax authorities for the years 2008 to 2011
At the beginning of 2012, the IfM Bonn presented the first data on the founding of new companies in the liberal professions. At the end of 2012 the current data from the tax authorities could be evaluated for the first time for all 16 federal states.
External publication | 2012 Case Study of High-Tech Gründerfonds
On behalf of the European Commission, the European Network for Social and Economic Research (ENSR), of which IfM Bonn is a German partner, has evaluated state support measures to facilitate access to financing for small and medium-sized enterprises in five member states of the European Union (D, F, GB, PL and S).
External publication | 2012 Development of entrepreneurial personality potentials - an empirical analysis in secondary school II.
The following article presents the planned intervention study in panel design for the development of entrepreneurial potential within the framework of curricularly anchored entrepreneurship education in secondary level II.
External publication | 2012 Regional and company-specific factors for high growth dynamics of ICT companies in Germany with particular emphasis on knowledge spillovers
Two hundred ICT companies based in Germany were interviewed to find out which regional and company specific factors may have a measurable direct impact on corporate growth.