With SOEP's 2007 data release, a number of changes and additions have been made in the cross-sectional weighting scheme. They apply to the following:. - - Inclusion of refreshment sample H.. - - Classification of West Berlin as belonging to the "new" federal states (of former East Germany).. - -...

This paper addresses the issue of estimating and forecasting productivity growth trends in the US and Germany from the perspective of a business cycle researcher who wants to use the available information in time series of aggregate labor productivity to derive a model for short- and/or...

During the last decade a number of principles of modern technology policy emerged from the intensive debate on efficient designs of technology policy to encourage and strengthen the competitiveness of economies. While at the beginning national innovation systems like national economies seemed to...