We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females? willingness to work and the probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Results of a bivariate...

Trotz seiner in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich gestiegenen gesamtwirtschaftlichen Bedeutung ist über das Verhalten des Wirtschaftszweiges unternehmensnahe Dienstleistung im Konjunkturzyklus bislang wenig bekannt. Es erscheint wegen der starken Outsourcingaktivitäten des verarbeitenden...

This paper aims at providing business survey analysts with simple econometric tools to quantify qualitative survey data. We extend the traditional and commonly applied method proposed by Carlson and Parkin (1975) to capture observable survey respondent heterogeneity. We also discuss...