This paper measures the performance of a Latent Class CBC model with aggregate real world scanning data.

The Workplace Employment Relations Survey series is a tremendously useful source of datafor industrial relations researchers. But, like all large-scale secondary datasets, it has anumber of design problems. These have not been articulated previously in much depth.Looking at the 2004 instalment...

This article evaluates the performance of structural equation models in validating measurement models for hypothetical constructs and deals with specific issues following from the way this methodology is typically applied in scale construction. In particular, controlling for various types of...

Data fusion techniques typically aim to achieve a complete data file from different sources which do not contain the same units. Traditionally, this is done on the basis of variables common to all files. It is well known that those approaches establish conditional independence of the specific...

Assessing the discriminative power of rating systems is an important question to banks and to regulators. In this article we analyze the Cumulative Accuracy Profile (CAP) and the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) which are both commonly used in practice. We give a test-theoretic...

"Unemployment information in individual level register data depends on institutional settings, administrative procedures and which registers are merged. In this paper we suggest different implementation strategies for common international and German legal unemployment definitions for the Sample...

"Neben der Bereitstellung der Daten und der Beratung der Nutzer ist eine der wesentlichen Aufgaben des FDZ die Sicherung und Verbesserung der Datenqualität. Im Rahmen von FDZ-Methodenreporten besteht auch für Personen die nicht im FDZ arbeiten die Möglichkeit hierzu beizutragen. In diesem...

"Das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) führt seit dem Jahr 1989 einmal jährlich eine repräsentative Erhebung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Stellenangebots in Unternehmen und öffentlichen Verwaltungen Deutschlands durch. An der jüngsten Befragung im Herbst 2004 beteiligten...

"In recent times, the concept of tasks increasingly arises in the literature. Tasks defined as occupational tasks that individuals have to perform get more and more important in analysing different research questions. The most common application is the task-based approach (Autor/Levy/Murnane...

"In recent times, the concept of tasks increasingly arises in the literature. Tasks defined as occupational tasks that individuals have to perform get more and more important in analysing different research questions. The most common application is the task-based approach (Autor/Levy/Murnane...