Munich/Stuttgart (dpa/lsw) – In a comparison of the location conditions for family businesses, Baden-Württemberg ranks in the top group. This is the result of the federal state index presented for the first time on Thursday by the Leibniz Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) on behalf of the Foundation for Family Businesses. The researchers compared all sixteen federal states. Bavaria and Saxony perform best among the non-city states, with Baden-Württemberg in third place.
The researchers looked at the five areas of taxation, labor and human capital, finance, infrastructure and institutions. The categories were weighted based on the results of a company survey and included in the index to varying degrees – work, human capital and infrastructure were particularly important to family businesses. In terms of infrastructure, Baden-Württemberg ranks in the middle. In terms of labor and human capital, the South West is in the top group.
The three city states of Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin were examined separately from the non-city states because, according to the authors, they are difficult to compare due to structural differences. Here Hamburg is just behind Berlin, Bremen comes off worse. Among the non-city states, Schleswig-Holstein, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt and Rhineland-Palatinate are at the bottom. They all have fairly similar point values.
