Most firm-level research on the characteristics and strategies of globalized firms focuses on manufacturing industries while firm-level evidence on trade in services is still rare and has just recently begun to emerge. This study uses an unique dataset of Austrian service exporting firms over a...

This report is an annex to wiiw Research Report 423, 'Economic Challenges of Lagging Regions III Recent Investment Trends and Needs'. Based on spatial econometric methods, it provides estimates and simulations of the investment effects on economic development in the EU lagging regions. It also...

Dieser Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über aktuelle Forschungsprojekte des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), die sich alle auf unterschiedliche Weise mit der Behebung von Problemen mit Missing Data befassen. Hierzu gehören einerseits Projekte, die Stichproben verwenden wie...

This paper makes three contributions to the literature on the effects of collective bargaining on the performance of German establishments. We include the analysis of firms' efficiency and we model productivity and efficiency simultaneously. Confronted with 25 % observations with missing values,...

In this paper we solve the benchmark heterogeneous agents model by Aiyagari (1994) using Monte Carlo methods. In addition, the idiosyncratic shocks process is approximated using Tauchen's (1986) method. This we go beyond the 2 by 2 Markov matrix approximation of the AR(1) stochastic process. The...

Das Steuer-Transfer-Mikrosimulationsmodell STSM ist ein statisches Mikrosimulationsmodell zur empirischen Analyse der Auswirkungen von Steuern, Sozialabgaben und Sozialtransfers auf Einkommen und Erwerbstätigkeit privater Haushalte in Deutschland. Die Datenbasis ist das Sozioökonomische Panel...

We develop a new modelling approach combining micro and macro simulations to analyse distributional and stabilizing effects of a European Unemployment Benefit System (EUBS). We run counterfactual simulations based on micro data for the period 1995 to 2013 to estimate net contributions for...