version of the basic file covers now the years 1975 to 1995 and contains for the first time information on Eastern Germany for … employment careers without typical problems of longitudinal surveys which do arise in social research (e.g. panel mortality …

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 …

panel of OECD countries, primarily focusing on the association between these subjective measures and the effective level of … inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and …

rights reduces the gender wealth gap. The data for our analysis come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the …