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An investigation of record linkage refusal and its implications for empirical research

Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2017

social sciences have thus far investigated the variables associated with linkage consent. These studies have produced … diverging results with regard to the relevance of certain characteristics for the provision or non-provision of linkage consent … previously inconsistent results. This is also the first study in which possible linkage consent bias is investigated in applied …

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The SearchEngine: A holistic approach to matching

Doherr, Thorsten - 2023

The SearchEngine is an open source project providing an integrated framework for diverse matching activities, especially the linkage of large scale firm data by fuzzy criteria like company names and addresses. At its core, it utilizes an efficient candidate retrieval mechanism implementing a...

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Crime and the Labour Market: Evidence from a Survey of Inmates

Entorf, Horst - 2008

In this paper data from a survey of 1,771 inmates conducted in 31 German prisons provide microeconometric evidence on the relationship between individual anticipated labour market opportunities and the perceived probability of future recidivism. Results show that inmates with poor labour market...

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Long-term impacts of environmental policy and eco-innovative activities of firms

Rennings, Klaus; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2010

This paper analyses two aspects of environmental regulations triggered by ecoinnovations. First, whether there are long term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the environmental benefit of the innovations. To answer...

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The own-wage elasticity of labor demand: A meta-regression analysis

Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014

Firms' labor demand responses to wage changes are of key interest in empirical research and policy analysis. However, despite extensive research, estimates of labor demand elasticities remain subject to considerable heterogeneity. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive meta-regression...

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Which incentives to increase survey response of secondary school pupils?

Sprietsma, Maresa - 2016

Increasing participation rates in pupil surveys has become an important challenge for empirical educational research. In this paper we investigate whether combining a monetary incentive with a personalised invitation to participate in a survey increases the response rate of secondary school...

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Predicting innovative firms using web mining and deep learning

Kinne, Jan; Lenz, David - 2019

Innovation is considered as a main driver of economic growth. Promoting the development of innovation through STI (science, technology and innovation) policies requires accurate indicators of innovation. Traditional indicators often lack coverage, granularity as well as timeliness and involve...

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Framing effects in consumer expectations surveys

Pavlova, Lora - 2024

In a randomized experiment embedded in a survey, I test the effects of variations in question wording and format on consumer response behavior and the corresponding inflation expectations. To this end, survey participants from a representative sample of German consumers are broken down into four...

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Motivate the crowd or crowd- them out? The impact of local government spending on the voluntary provision of a green public good

Bartels, Lara; Kesternich, Martin - 2022

Cities are increasingly hold accountable for climate action. By demonstrating their proenvironmentality through own climate-related activities, they not at least aspire to encourage individual climate protection efforts. Based on standard economic theory there is little reason to assume that...

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COVID-19 and the formation of energy conservation routines: Disentangling the relative importance of attention and income shocks

Löschel, Andreas; Price, Michael Keith; Razzolini, Laura; … - 2022

We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the formation of energy conservation routines. To do so, we use data from two nationwide surveys of German households, conducted before and during the pandemic. Across the two survey waves, we document a significant increase in the likelihood...

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