employment performance than non-family controlled companies. Therefore, this study applies a treatment model for panel data using … family firms as a treatment indicator. Moreover, a propensity score estimation is introduced to the model to control for …Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht Unterschiede in der Arbeitsnachfrage von Familienbetrieben zu anderen Firmen. Wie in …

increasingly important sector in the German economy. Cross-sectional data from an innovation survey and panel data from a quarterly …

the factors determining import demand in Zimbabwe using a gravity model. Forty trading partners for Zimbabwe and data for … effects and the findings were that gross domestic product and trade openness for Zimbabwe and her trading partners had a … positive impact on import demand. Furthermore, inflation and population for Zimbabwe as well as its trading partners’ and …

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, it compares the performance of various panel data models in estimating … technical efficiency in production. Second, it applies various stochastic frontier panel data models to estimate the technical …

unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical …

regions with district level of development and, hence, production technologies. The dataset used is farm-level balanced panel …