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The research potential of new types of enterprise data based on surveys from official statistics in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2009
A new generation of data sets became available recently in the research data centres of the German statistical offices. These new data combine information for firms gathered in different surveys (or from other sources) that could not be analyzed jointly before. This paper offers a short...
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The KfW/ZEW start-up panel: design and research potential
Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - 2009
So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using … Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269631
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Class Ridden or Meritocratic? An Economic Analysis of Recent Changes in Britain
Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Vignoles, Anna - 2003
In a meritocratic society an individual's economic success is determined by their ability, not by their parents' socio-economic status. We assess whether meritocracy has increased in both the British education system and labour market. The richness of our longitudinal data enables us to look at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262171
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Social mobility: is there an advantage in being English in Scotland?
van Ham, Maarten; Findlay, Allan; Manley, David; … - 2010
This paper seeks to unpick the complex effects of migration, country of birth, and place of residence in Scotland on individual success in the labour market. We pay specific attention to the labour force experience of English-born residents in Scotland, whom the cross sectional literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274181
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Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-Level Evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2013
exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319408
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Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-Level Evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885180
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Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages
Dustmann, Christian - 2001
their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in Germany an important decision about which educational track to follow is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262574
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Age, life-satisfaction, and relative income: Insights from the UK and Germany
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael; Steinhardt, Max F. - 2011
comparison income effect. In East Germany the reference income effects are insignificant for all. With data from the British …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282590
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Memorandum: Erfolgsbedingungen empirischer Wirtschaftsforschung und empirisch gestuetzter wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischer Beratung
Hauser, Richard; Wagner, Gert G.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
Based on the hypothesis that microdata are of crucial importance for internationally competitive economic research and … work in Germany. Present shortcomings are mainly caused by a lack of coordination between data collecting institutions and …, empirical economics, especially application of microdata and modern tools of data analysis, should be emphasized within the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262260
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Education and Self-Employment: South Asian Immigrants in the US Labor Market
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - 2014
Does higher educational attainment lead to greater participation in self-employment? Available studies agree and disagree on this subject through various explanations. We invoke an empirical example from the experiences of immigrants moving from poor countries to rich countries. Further, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377285