It collects data, analyzes it, and can provide doctors with more precise information on the best possible patient care. It ensures driving safety in the road traffic of tomorrow. It helps decide whether we get the loan or not. Artificial intelligence (AI): the technology of the future is finding its way into work and everyday life. It is supposed to make our lives easier. However, it also harbors risks in areas including control, data protection, and job losses.

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Vocational Education 4.0

The digital transformation is a key technological trend that will change the world of labor in the future. Our research shows that people with a vocational education run the risk of losing their jobs later in life when demand for their occupation-specific skills fades over time due to technical and structural change. This creates a trade-off between early employment advantages and later employment risks for educational programs that train for work in a specific job which is particularly pronounced in apprenticeship countries.

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Demography

As the population ages, there are fewer and fewer young people to finance pensions. A declining number of working-age people are generating the revenue that the welfare state uses to provide benefits. Companies must align their human resources policies with demographic change. In the long term, municipalities will also be forced to realign their services: if the population grows, they will have to build day-care centers and schools; if the population shrinks, they will have to make downward adjustments to public administration and infrastructure. It is precisely because demographic processes proceed so slowly that the socio-political challenges they bring tend to fade into the background. However, the earlier the facts and available options are brought to the table, the sooner such diverse change can be managed.

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Digital Tax

They earn billions in the EU – but pay hardly any taxes: this is the accusation against internet giants like Apple, Google, and Facebook. A number of initiatives aim to hold them more accountable. Under the current system, a foreign business’s profits are taxed where that business has a permanent physical presence, what is known as a permanent establishment. In addition to the tax on profits, there is also sales tax, which is levied where a business generates its sales. Of course, these rules also apply to companies with digital business models.

EBDC Data Set – ifo Innovation Survey

ifo Innovation Survey (2014)

Data set of ifo's micro data.
10.7805/ebdc-ins-2014

EBDC Data Set – EBDC Business Expectations Panel

EBDC Business Expectations Panel (2019)

Data set of EBDC Panel Data.
10.7805/ebdc-bep-2019

EBDC Data Set – ifo Business Survey Industry

ifo Business Survey Industry (2015a)

Data set of ifo's micro data.
10.7805/ebdc-ibs-ind-2015a

EBDC Data Set – ifo Business Survey Insurance

ifo Business Survey Insurance (2013)

Data set of ifo's micro data.
10.7805/ebdc-ibs-isr-2013

EBDC Data Set – EBDC Downloads

Microfinance loan officers before and during Covid-19: Evidence from India

Data and code
https://doi.org/10.7805/Microfinance-India-2022

EBDC Data Set – ifo Investment Survey Trade

ifo Investment Survey Trade (2011)

Data set of ifo's micro data.
10.7805/ebdc-ivs-tra-2011

EBDC Data Set – ifo Business Survey Industry

ifo Business Survey Industry (2021b)

Data set of ifo's micro data.
10.7805/ebdc-ibs-ind-2021b

EBDC Data Set – ifo Business Survey Trade

ifo Business Survey Trade (2022a)

Data set of ifo's micro data.
10.7805/ebdc-ibs-tra-2022a

Topic

Coronavirus

The coronavirus crisis began in China in late 2019 and has caused major health and economic damage worldwide. In the affected countries, it triggered both a supply shock and a demand shock, thus giving rise to the essential difficulty in the economic management of the coronavirus.

EBDC Data Set – EBDC Business Expectations Panel