Nonresponse in surveys may result in a distortion of the distribution of interest. In a panel survey the participation … restates a result for Finland for the ECHP (European Community Household Panel). A second condition concerns the selectivity of … panel attrition after wave one. Here panel attrition must not depend on the income state of the previous panel wave. The …

We propose a new view of initial nonresponse bias in longitudinal surveys. Under certain conditions, an initial bias … for respondents and nonrespondents, and attrition in later panel waves must not depend on the state of the individuals …. The theory is applied to a German survey on social benefit recipience. Minor deviations from assumptions are shown to have …

selection rule for the investigation of the impact of subsidised firm foundation from unemployment on employment growth of the … firm. The empirical analysis is based on the ZEW Firm Start-up Panel using a cohort of firms founded in 15 labour market … two-step estimator. The FIML model yields a significant negative impact of bridging allowance on employment growth …

, this paper presents empirical evidence that technological skill bias is also present for business related services, an … increasingly important sector in the German economy. Cross-sectional data from an innovation survey and panel data from a quarterly … five different skill groups. The micro-level data also allow the analysis of shifting employment patterns for a single …

to panel attrition, which are thought to worsen the bias resulting from initial nonresponse. However, under certain … conditions an initial wave nonresponse bias may vanish in later panel waves. We study such a "Fade away" of an initial …High nonresponse rates have become a rule in survey sampling. In panel surveys there occur additional sample losses due …

demography is used to show that an initial bias can "fade-away" in later panel waves, if the transition laws in the observed …We propose a novel view of selection bias in longitudinal surveys. Such bias may arise from initial nonresponse in a … sample and the population are identical. Panel attrition is incorporated into the Markovian framework. Extensions to Markov …