In the first half of 2022, the proportion of companies in the state that were active in further training increased significantly by 13 percentage points to 48 per cent (previous year: 35 per cent). The proportion was thus once again above the national average of 42 per cent. However, the level from the year before the Covid 19 pandemic (2019: 56 per cent) has not yet been reached again.
Six recommendations could be derived from the results of the evaluation based on a participant survey, which could contribute to a better effectiveness of the program or the successor program "Ausbildungswege NRW": Firstly, the target group should be sharpened; secondly, the providers should be empowered to do more public relations work; thirdly, individual support needs of the participants should be identified and ensured; fourthly, internships in the matching phase should be strengthened; fifthly, the empowerment of the participants should be promoted; and sixthly, more intensive and continuous support should be ensured during the duration of the program.
The NRW training program ran from 2018 to 2022 and provided funding for around 1,000 additional training places per year for young people with placement barriers in 34 cities and districts in North Rhine-Westphalia where the training market situation was unfavourable.
December 7 and 8, 2023: T H E Christmas Workshop at the University of Hohenheim
The Winter School at THE Christmas Workshop was held by Prof. Andreas Moxnes, PhD (University of Oslo). She summarized the results of a number of recent studies on the importance of international production networks. Against the background of supply chain problems and trade barriers, these findings are important for understanding the development of international value chains and their contribution to productivity and growth.
Nine papers were presented at the Young Researcher Workshop. The Best Paper Award went to Martin Kroczekand Dr. Philipp Kugler (both IAW) for their paper "Heterogeneous Effects of Monetary and Non-Monetary Job Characteristics on Job Attractiveness in Nursing".
The THE Christmas Workshop is a joint project of the School of Business and Economics and the Institute for Applied Economic Research e.V. (IAW) at the University of Tübingen and the Institute of Economics at the University of Hohenheim.
In 2022, the company training participation rate in Baden-Württemberg developed positively compared to the previous year: both the net and gross training company rate increased again from 52% to 55% and from 29% to 30% respectively. In Germany and western Germany, however, the net training company rates were 3 and 4 percentage points higher respectively. In the 2021/2022 training year, only around 67% of the company-based training places offered in Baden-Württemberg were filled; in the previous training year, the figure was around 72%.
Good legislation and good administrative action are of great importance for the social acceptance of politics and administration. Unfortunately, however, they are often unclear, bureaucratic and poorly tailored to the needs of citizens. This conference volume(in German) addresses the current situation in and potential solutions to this issue, including training, service design, digitisation and AI.
After the years of the Corona pandemic, with declines in economic performance in many sectors, the Stuttgart Region is currently showing signs of a clear recovery. However, new crises have emerged, such as the war in Ukraine with its (not only) global economic consequences or the increasingly clear climate changes, which also require action in the region. At the same time, digitization is advancing and the transformation of the powertrain and mobility is leaving its mark far beyond the automotive industry.
In addition to analyses of the structure and dynamics of the regional economy, the structural report also takes an in-depth look at various "resilience factors" (e.g., labor and training market, innovation, commercial space). These factors can present themselves as opportunities or risks for the regional economy.
Based on the presentation of five focus areas of the regional economy - the automotive and production technology clusters, the IT economy, the healthcare industry and the skilled trades industry - further strengths, weaknesses and challenges for the regional economy are identified and analyzed.
In the third quarter of 2023, the growth of Baden-Württemberg's gross domestic product (GDP) will slip slightly into negative territory (see figure on the left: rates of change in GDP from the previous quarter, 2021-2024). In the two following quarters, there could be weakly positive economic growth again. As far as can be foreseen at present, 2023 will nevertheless be recorded in the statistics as a year with very weak growth.
In the economic causal analyses of a recent IAW study commissioned by the BMFSFJ, no statistically significant effects of the instruments of the EntgTranspG on equal pay between women and men can be demonstrated. The further analyses show that the applicable legal regulations are still not sufficiently known, that their implementation remains unclear in some cases, and that they are often ignored or circumvented in whole or in part. This is also due to the fact that at least two of the three central instruments of the law, namely the voluntary company auditing procedures and the reporting obligations for companies subject to management reporting, are not or not sufficiently sanctioned.
