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Surveying Romanian Migrants in Italy Before and After the EU Accession: Migration Plans, Labour Market Features and Social Inclusion

Mara, Isilda - 2012

This report describes the migration patterns of Romanian migrants in Italy before and after the accession of Romania into the European Union (EU). The findings and the main results presented throughout the report were collected by carrying out a survey in three main cities of Italy Milan, Turin...

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Measuring Scale Economies in a Heterogeneous Industry: The Case of European Settlement Institutions

van Cayseele, Patrick; Wuyts, Christophe - 2006

We examine whether the European settlement institutions are technically efficient. This is done by means of estimating a translog cost function, and investigating whether scale economies are fully exploited. Since the sample is quite heterogeneous, fixed effects regression is introduced. From...

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Engagement im Spiegel sozialer und räumlicher Ungleichheit: Empirische Analyseergebnisse auf Basis des Deutschen Freiwilligensurveys (2019) und des Sozio-Oekonomischen Panels (2001...

Kleiner, Tuuli-Marja; Kühne, Marie - 2023

Das Thema 'Freiwilliges Engagement' hat in den vergangenen Jahren sowohl politisch als auch gesellschaftlich Konjunktur. Ein Grund dafür ist, dass sich die Politik und einige Forscher:innen vom freiwilligen Engagement der Bevölkerung positive gesellschaftliche Auswirkungen versprechen - sowohl...

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Selectivity processes in and weights for the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II)

Saßenroth, Denise; Kroh, Martin; Wagner, Gert G. - 2014

Like many medical studies, the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is based on a non-random "gconvenience sample" of self-recruited participants. To study processes of selectivity in BASE-II, we used a questionnaire to compare BASE-II with a large, representative reference study, the German...

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An analysis of youth unemployment in the euro area

Gomez-Salvador, Ramon; Leiner-Killinger, Nadine - 2008

The paper starts by presenting some stylised facts on youth unemployment over the last two decades, both at the euro area and the country level. It shows that despite declining considerably over the last few years, youth unemployment has remained at a high level relative to other age groups in...

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Der Corona-Innovationswettlauf in der Wissenschaft: Eine Analyse der wissenschaftlichen Publikationen zur Bekämpfung der Corona-Pandemie und die Bedeutung für den Pharma-Standort D...

Kirchhoff, Jasmina; Mertens, Armin; Scheufen, Marc - 2020

Die Corona-Pandemie und die damit einhergehenden Einschränkungen in fast allen gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Bereichen beeinflussen seit einigen Wochen das Leben der Menschen weltweit. Neben der möglichen Strategie, eine Herdenimmunität durch Infizierung von 60 bis 70 Prozent der...

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SOEP 2010 - Preparation of data from the New SOEP consumption module: Editing, imputation, and smoothing

Marcus, Jan; Siegers, Rainer; Grabka, Markus M. - 2013

This documentation describes the data preparation of the new consumption module in the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and introduces the content and structure of the generated dataset hconsum. In 2010, the SOEP for the first time included a detailed consumption module in the household...

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Preparation of data from the new SOEP consumption module: Editing, imputation, and smoothing

Marcus, Jan; Siegers, Rainer; Grabka, Markus M. - 2013

This documentation describes the data preparation of the new consumption module in the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and introduces the content and structure of the generated dataset 'hconsum'. In 2010, the SOEP for the first time included a detailed consumption module in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324337

Nonresponse in Business Tendency Surveys: Theoretical Discourse and Empirical Evidence

Seiler, Christian - 2013

Surveys are a widely used tool to answer socio-economic research question across disciplines. However, data collection can face certain problems such as nonresponding units. For household and population surveys, a large body of literature about the effects of nonresponse exist but only less is...

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Missing income data in the German SOEP: Incidence, imputation and its impact on the income distribution

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2014

item-non-response and with imputation as one alternative strategy to cope with this issue. In contrast to cross …-section surveys, the imputation of missing values in panel data can profit from longitudinal information which is available for the … very same observation units from other points in time. The 'row-and-column imputation procedure' developed by Little & Su …

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