Labour costs up by 1.1% in 3rd quarter 7. December 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to the Federal Statistical Office, labour costs in industry as well as in the service sector increased by 1.1% over the 3rd quarter 2007 as compared to the same period in 2006. In comparison to the second quarter the increase amounted to 0.3% in figures which were adjusted for season and calendar.
Entrepreneur´s day organized by the university of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt 6. December 2007 by Thomas Jannot Entrepreneurship is a driving force in our society and leads to innovation, new products and solutions which have positive effects on the labour market and prosperity of a region. On December 10th an “Entrepreneur´s Day“ organized jointly by the Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and the Centre for Business Start-ups in …
Lack of specialists costs more than 18 billion Euros 6. December 2007 by Thomas Jannot Even though, by international standards, German pupils receive good marks in the natural sciences, they do not seem to be motivated to take up corresponding study courses: the number of graduates of engineering study courses even fell from 50.000 in 1995 to 40.000 last year. Thus, recently the number of young university graduates of an …
In 2007 Germany once more world´s leading exporting country 5. December 2007 by Thomas Jannot On the occasion of the presentation of the “World Trade Report 2007″, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) presented provisional figures on this year´s world trade yesterday in Geneva. According to these figures, Germany once more won the title of being the world´s leading exporting county ahead of China. These figures are based on data for …
Global share of digital cameras reached 91 percent 5. December 2007 by Thomas Jannot By the end of 2007 approximately 138 million digital cameras will have been sold worldwide which will amount to an increase of about 10% as compared to last year. In the meantime the share of digital cameras has increased to 91% (about 126 million pieces). The world market for high-quality reflex cameras alone will exceed …
Turnover in downloads booming 5. December 2007 by Thomas Jannot The turnover generated by the downloading of music, audio books, videos, games and software increased to 118 million Euros over the first three quarters in 2007. By the end of this year the German Association for Information Management, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM) on the basis of a survey by the GfK market research institute …
Executives avoid to move houses and prefer commuting 5. December 2007 by Thomas Jannot Executives are more and more ready to get to distant places of work by commuting, be it by taking the plane twice a week or sitting in the car each day and driving 90 minutes to their offices. 70% of international personnel agencies taking part in the “Executive Recruiter Index” say that this was indeed …
New EU strategy against fiscal fraud 30. November 2007 by Thomas Jannot A new strategy against fiscal fraud has been implemented by the Council of the European Union. The new agenda proposed by the EU Commission which is called “Fiscalis 2013” is to improve the co-operation between fiscal authorities and support them in monitoring that the tax rules are more observed by companies. Fiscalis 2013 will also …
Number of gainfully employed people hit record high 30. November 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to provisional figures by the Federal Statistical Office, there were about 40.26 million gainfully employed people in Germany in October 2007. This is an increase of 688.000 or 1.7% as compared to October 2006. Compared to September this year the number of gainfully employed people rose by 207.000 or +0.5%.
Turnover in whole sale trade increased by 1.8% in real terms 29. November 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to provisional figures provided by the Federal Statistical Office, the turnover generated by whole sale traders in Germany was 4.5% and 1.8% higher in nominal and real terms respectively in October 2007 as compared to October last year. Compared to September this year, turnover increased by 1.4% and 0.6% respectively.