Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a … discrete choice panel data model controlling for unobserved heterogeneity to simultaneously estimate labor supply and the …

This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to … document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …

what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …

Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the …So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using … yearly panel waves computer-aided telephone interviews (CATI) are conducted with about 6,000 start-up firms from almost all …

Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a … discrete choice panel data model controlling for unobserved heterogeneity to simultaneously estimate labor supply and the …

This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household … panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation …

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS …

processes in West Germany. The empirical analysis is based on regional data for local employment office districts for the period … obtain consistent estimates in the presence of a dynamic panel data model, a firstdifferences GMM estimator and a transformed …

, panel data provide a unique opportunity to identify data which are actually faked by interviewers. By comparing data of two … waves almost all fakes are easily identifiable. So the raw data of the German Socio- Economic Panel Study (SOEP) provide a … rich source of faked interviews because it is built on several sub-samples. However, because interviewers know that panel …

A particular shortcoming of panel surveys is potential bias arising from selective attrition. Based on data from the … German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) we analyze potential artifacts (level, structure, inequality of income) by comparing … results from two independently drawn panel sub-samples, started in 1984 and 2000, respectively. Both sub-samples carried on …