Search Results - subject:"micro data"

Improvements and future challenges for the research infrastructure in the field firm level data

Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008 - [Version: June 24, 2008]

wirtschaftsstatistische Einzeldaten, or micro data for production units. This kind of data can either be collected in a survey (administered … use micro data for production units in scientific studies. Although researchers are not at all interested in any of the … empirical discovery from econometric analyses using micro data. Everybody who ever worked with plant or enterprise level data …

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Mikrodaten und Mikroanalysen für Freie Berufe : neue Wege und Möglichkeiten

Merz, Joachim - In: Freie Berufe - Einkommen und Steuern (FB€St) : …, (pp. 57-63). 2008

In Mikroanalysen steht der Einzelne, das Individuum - sei es als Person, Haushalt, Unternehmen oder als Organisation - im Vordergrund. Mikroanalysen sind für eine zielgenaue Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik fundamental wichtig; erst sie erlauben eine Analyse der von Politik direkt betroffenen....

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Are shrinking and leisure substitutable? : an empirical test of efficiency wages based on urban economic theory

Ross, Stephen L. (contributor); Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2008

Recent theoretical work has examined the spatial distribution of unemployment using the efficiency wage model as the mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urban economy. This paper extends the standard efficiency wage model in order to allow for behavioral substitution between leisure...

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Exports and productivity - comparable evidence for 14 countries

Pertl, Leonhard (contributor); Schiavo, Stefano (contributor) - International Study Group on Exports and Productivity - 2008

Consisting of teams working with firm level data, the International Study Group on Exports and Productivity has used comparable micro level panel data for 14 countries and a set of identically specified empirical models to investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. The...

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De Facto Anonymised Microdata File on Income Tax Statistics 1998

Merz, Joachim - 2008

With the data of the de facto anonymised Income Tax Statistics 1998 (FAST 98), the German official statistics are for the first time publishing microdata from the field of fiscal statistics. The scientific community can use these data to analyse politically-relevant questions on the fiscal and...

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Hohe und niedrige Einkommen : neue Ergebnisse zu Freien und anderen Berufen mit den Mikrodaten der Einkommensteuerstatistik

Merz, Joachim - In: Freie Berufe - Einkommen und Steuern (FB€St) : …, (pp. 67-90). 2008

Auch der aktuelle zweite Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung akzentuiert die beiden Pole der Einkommensverteilung: Armut und Reichtum. Erstmals ist darin auf der Basis der Mikrodaten der Einkommensteuerstatistiken 1992, 1995 und 1998 - und auf der Basis einer Fortschreibung mit dem...

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Distance Sensitivity of Export: A Firm-Product Level Approach

Jienwatcharamongkhol, Viroj - In: Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 14 (2014) 4, pp. 531-554

Recent literature suggests that the extent to which exports of a product is influenced by distance depends on the product characteristics. Differentiated products with non-standardised attributes are typically claimed to be more distance-sensitive as transactions should involve interactions...

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Surviving the times of crisis: does innovation make a difference?

Sidorkin, Oleg; Srholec, Martin - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 7 (2014) 2, pp. 124-146

The recent economic crisis caught many by surprise. Yet some firms were better prepared to weather the downturn than others. Using a unique micro dataset of shareholding companies from emerging countries in Eastern and Southern Europe derived from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, we...

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How Swiss small and medium-sized firms assess the performance impact of mergers and acquisitions

Arvanitis, Spyros; Stucki, Tobias - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 2, pp. 339-360

While previous studies on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) mostly relied on large firms, our study is based on a sample that includes all Swiss M&As that took place in the period 2006–2008, mostly of which have been SMEs. We investigate the firm characteristics that determine the innovation and...

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Exchange rate fluctuations, plant turnover and productivity

Tomlin, Ben - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 35 (2014) C, pp. 12-28

In a small open economy, fluctuations in the real exchange rate can affect plant turnover, and thus aggregate productivity, by altering the makeup of plants that populate the market. This paper develops a structural model that captures the effect of plant-level productivity and real exchange...

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