This paper presents two new tools for the identification of faking interviewers in surveys. One method is based on Benford's Law, and the other exploits the empirical observation that fakers most often produce answers with less variability than could be expected from the whole survey. We focus...

Die Studie untersucht die strukturelle Entwicklung der deutschen Wirtschaft bis zur Mitte der 90er Jahre. Der Strukturwandel wird weiterhin von der Fortentwicklung der internationalen Arbeitsteilung und von Verschiebungen zugunsten der Dienstleistungen geprägt. Vermehrte Dienstleistungsinputs...

Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...