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What drives the productive efficiency of a firm? : the importance of industry, location, R&D, and size

Badunenko, Oleg (contributor); Fritsch, Michael (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...

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Copayments for ambulatory care in Germany : a natural experiment using a difference-in-difference approach

Schreyögg, Jonas (contributor); … - 2008

In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health...

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In vino pecunia? : the association between beverage-specific drinking behavior and wages

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. (contributor); … - 2008

individual-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we confirm that this relationship exists for Germany as well. More …

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Allocative efficiency measurement revisited : do we really need input prices?

Badunenko, Oleg (contributor); Fritsch, Michael (contributor) - 2006

enterprises from the chemical industry in Germany. …

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Representative wealth data for Germany from the German SOEP : the impact of methodological decisions around imputation and the choice of the aggregation unit

Frick, Joachim R. (contributor); … - 2007

The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata requires a wide range of more or less normative assumptions. However, the decisions made in both the pre- and post-data-collection stage may interfere considerably with the...

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Dealing with incomplete household panel data in inequality research

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2010

Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further...

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Economic gains from publicly provided education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R. (contributor); … - 2007

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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national Perspective

Frick, Joachim R. (contributor); … - 2007

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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture : Germany 1925 - 2005

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012

We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80...

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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

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