In den Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren eine Kultur des Teilens von Daten (data sharing) durchgesetzt. Das heißt, es sind zunehmend interessante Daten für Forschungszwecke verfügbar; die Herausforderung besteht heute in der Organisation dieser...

Are immigrants on welfare because they are more likely to be eligible or because they are more likely to claim benefits for which they are eligible? The answer is politically important, but because most current research on immigration and welfare is based on data from the U.S., the answer is...

Um "Data Replication and Reproducibility" von Forschungsergebnissen systematisch so sicherzustellen wie dies notwendig ist und in den Lehrbüchern steht, muss im Selbstverständnis und Agieren aller am Forschungs- und Publikationsprozess beteiligten Akteure sich etwas ändern. Und dafür...

Cooperation between researchers, research funders and peerreviewed journals is a key approach - otherwise we will continue to hear merry-go-round rationals why science is still unscientific in the 21st century and nobody's to blame: the researchers as individuals cannot bring about change. They...

Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and overtime compensation in the two countries in the 1990s. Our estimates reveal that the observed overtime patterns affect both the evolution of the monthly labour earnings...

Based on the hypothesis that microdata are of crucial importance for internationally competitive economic research and scientific advice in economic and social policy, the authors develop various proposals for an improved data supply for empirical work in Germany. Present shortcomings are mainly...