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The impact of the introduction of the Euro on firms' expectations concerning export behavior, product innovation and foreign competition - An empirical assessment of the German bus...
Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Claudia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1998
in their expectations that the Euro will increase export activity and product innovation, but significantly more East … entering new markets and developing new products is stronger for firms which already export than for those who do not. Further …
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Exporting and labor demand: Micro-level evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
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Competing internationally: On the importance of R&D for export activity
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Wastyn, Annelies - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
Export is an important factor to improve growth and welfare especially for industrialized small, open economies such as … Belgium. Policy may be interested in key variables that can influence export. This paper finds evidence for the importance of … R&D for export activities using Belgian firm-level data. To control for reverse causality, R&D-subsidy variables are …
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Selection bias in innovation studies: A simple test
De Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Wastyn, Annelies - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
The study of the innovative output of firms often relies on a count of patents filed at one single office of reference such as the European Patent Office (EPO). Yet, not all firms file their patents at the EPO, raising the specter of a selection bias. Using a novel dataset of the whole...
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The Research Data Centre of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW-FDZ)
Gottschalk, Sandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
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The ZEW combined microsimulation-CGE model: innovative tool for applied policy analysis
Clauss, Markus; Schubert, Stefanie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
This contribution describes the linkage of microsimulation models and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models using two already established models called "STSM" and "PACE-L" used by the Centre for European Economic Research. This state of the art research method for applied policy analysis...
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On the Definition of Unemployment and its Implementation in Register Data: The Case of Germany
Kruppe, Thomas; Müller, Eva; Wichert, Laura; Wilke, Ralf A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
Unemployment information in individual level register data depends on institutional settings, administrative procedures and which registers are merged. In this paper we suggest different implementation strategies for common international and German legal unemployment definitions for the Sample...
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Wie kann die durchschnittliche Ausbildungsquote in Deutschland korrekt gemessen werden?
Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
This paper demonstrates that the share of apprentices exhibits a relatively strong seasonal pattern. This means that statistics on the share of apprentices such as those presented in official publications differ substantially from the actual yearly mean if they are measured on a date close to...
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The ZEW - Creditreform business survey in the business-related services sector : sampling frame, stratification, expansion and results
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kreuter, Markus; Niggemann, Hiltrud - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
No other area of the German economy has developed so emphatically in the past ten years as has that business-related services. Regardless of its growing overall economic importance, official statistics fail to provide economic researchers and economic policy with current data on the...
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Microdata Disclosure by Resampling: Empirical Findings for Business Survey Data
Gottschalk, Sandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
A problem statistical offices and research institutes are faced with by releasing micro-data is the preservation of confidentiality. Traditional methods to avoid disclosure often destroy the structure of data, i.e., information loss is potentially high. In this paper I discuss an alternative...
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