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Household panel data, scanner data, expenditure, food, duration models, attrition
Leicester, Andrew; Oldfield, Zoë - 2009
aggregates. More recently, economists have begun to use spending information collected by market research companies that records … and EFS surveys and discuss the implications of this method of data collection for survey attrition. Broadly, we suggest … that problems of fatigue and attrition may not be so severe as may be expected, though there are some differences in …
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How unemployment insurance savings accounts affect employment duration: Evidence from Chile
Nagler, Paula - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-25
The introduction of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISA) in Chile in October 2002 introduced more comprehensive unemployment protection while decreasing the opportunity costs of job change. Being the first to empirically investigate the effect of UISA on employment duration, this paper...
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Nonresponse trends in establishment panel surveys: Findings from the 2001-2017 IAB establishment panel
König, Corinna; Sakshaug, Joseph W. - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-17
Many household panel surveys have experienced decreasing response rates and increasing risk of nonresponse bias in recent decades, but trends in response rates and nonresponse bias in business or establishment panel surveys are largely understudied. This article examines both panel response...
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Experiments with methods to reduce attrition in longitudinal surveys
Fumagalli, Laura; Laurie, Heather; Lynn, Peter - 2010
reducing panel attrition. The first experiment compares different strategies for tracing and maintaining contact with sample …
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Smallholder farmers' dissatisfaction with contract schemes in spite of economic benefits: Issues of mistrust and lack of transparency
Ruml, Anette; Qaim, Matin - 2020
exit if they could. The main problem is insufficient information from the company. Farmers do not understand all contract …
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Does employing undocumented workers give firms a competitive advantage?
Brown, J. David; Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam - 2012
Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper finds that, on average, across all firms, employing undocumented workers reduces a firm’s hazard of exit by 19 percent. The advantage to firms from employing undocumented workers increases as more firms in the industry do so,...
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Survival dynamics in Portugal, a regional perspective
Sarmento, Elsa Morais; Nunes, Alcina - 2010
We address the post-entry performance of new Portuguese firms by investigating the structural characteristics survival, using both non-parametric methods and semi-parametric methods, for the seven regions of Portugal (NUT II). We also provide a disaggregated analysis by sector and size class,...
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The impact of FDI on firm survival in Italy
Ferragina, Anna; Pittiglio, Rosanna; Reganati, Filippo - 2009
The aim of the analysis is to investigate the impact of inward FDI on Italian manufacturing and services firm survival. The paper is organized in two steps. First, we carry out theoretically and empirically the analysis of firm survival distinguishing between foreign multinationals, domestic...
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Modeling the Duration of Patent Examination at the European Patent Office
Harhoff, Dietmar; Wagner, Stefan - 2006
information related to the patent's economic and technical relevance, EPO capacity and workload as well as novel citation measures …
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Dependence Measures in Bivariate Gamma Frailty Models
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Effraimidis, Georgios - 2014
Bivariate duration data frequently arise in economics, biostatistics and other areas. In bivariate frailty models, dependence between the frailties (i.e., unobserved determinants) induces dependence between the durations. Using notions of quadrant dependence, we study restrictions that this...
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