The Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) underpins many studies of firm-level behavior. It tracks longitudinally all employers in the nonfarm private sector but lacks information about business financing and owner characteristics. We address this shortcoming by linking LBD...

An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity measurement. Moreover, the theoretical...

Traditional methods of collecting data from businesses and households face increasing challenges. These include declining response rates to surveys, increasing costs to traditional modes of data collection, and the difficulty of keeping pace with rapid changes in the economy. The digitization of...

This paper explores alternative methods for adjusting price indices for quality change at scale. These methods can be applied to large-scale item-level transactions data that includes information on prices, quantities, and item attributes. The hedonic methods can take into account the changing...

This paper uses machine learning (ML) to estimate hedonic price indices at scale from item-level transaction and product characteristics. The procedure uses state-of-the-art approaches from hedonic econometrics and implements them with a neural network ML approach. Applying the methodology to...

This paper uses machine learning (ML) to estimate hedonic price indices at scale from item-level transaction and product characteristics. The procedure uses state-of-the-art approaches from hedonic econometrics and implements them with a neural network ML approach. Applying the methodology to...

This paper explores alternative methods for adjusting price indices for quality change at scale. These methods can be applied to large-scale item-level transactions data that includes information on prices, quantities, and item attributes. The hedonic methods can take into account the changing...

Aktuelle Zahlen der amtlichen Statistik zeigen, dass sich im Zuge des demografischen Wandels die Altersstruktur der Erwerbstätigen in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren verschoben hat. Dieser Trend wird sich in den nächsten zwei Jahrzehnten noch deutlicher fortsetzen. So wird laut Statistischem...

Mit den Auswirkungen der erwerbsdemografischen Entwicklungen konfrontiert und dem Ziel, die betriebliche Innovationsfähigkeit zu fördern, müssen Personalverantwortliche lernen, mit zunehmend alternden Belegschaften und altersgemischten Teams umzugehen. Betriebliche Innovationserfolge hängen...

Der vielfach diskutierte demografische Wandel verändert den Altersaufbau der Bevölkerung grundlegend. Neben gesamtgesellschaftlichen und ökonomischen Problemen, die aus diesen Entwicklungen resultieren, spürt vor allem das Personalmanagement in den Unternehmen die Folgen dieses Wandels. Das...