With the beginnings of a worldwide burgeoning development of matched firm-employee data, it is worthwhile to examine the possibilities for using these data. This essay discusses a variety of areas in which some progress has been made and presents ideas for future research in a number of others,...

Methods for the analysis of linked employer-employee data are not yet available in standard econometrics packages. In this paper, we make the fixed-effects methods developed orginally by Abowd, Kramarz, Margolis and others more accessible, where possible, and show how they can be implemented in...

Die Begriffe Arbeitslosigkeit und Erwerbslosigkeit werden im deutschen Sprachraum nicht synonym verwendet. Die Arbeitslosenquote errechnet sich anhand der registrierten Arbeitslosen, die international teilweise erheblich unterschiedlich abgegrenzt sind. International vergleichbar sind nur die...