This paper presents evidence on firm demographics and firm survival for a group of ten OECD countries. For each country a dataset of sectoral indicators of firm dynamics has been created using information from business registers. The patterns of firm entry, exit, survival and employment growth...

Die Verbesserung des Zugangs der Wirtschaft zu Mikrodatenfiles der amtlichen Statistik ist für die statistischen Ämter eine wichtige Aufgabe. In den Jahren 1988 bis 1990 sind Verfahren zur faktischen Anonymisierung von Mikrodatenfiles entwickelt worden. Sie bilden die Basis für die in den...

An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that the level and the structure of unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below...