This study provides evidence on how German multinational firms restructured their service activities during the last decade. Making use of new micro-level data on service imports of German multinationals from 2002-2008, we assess the determinants of service offshoring along the extensive and...

This study provides evidence on how German multinational firms have restructured their service activities around the recent crisis. Making use of new micro-level data on service imports of German multinationals from 2002-2008, we assess the determinants of service offshoring along the extensive...

The lack of comprehensive, international comparable wage data has been deplored for decades and has constrained the empirical analysis of wage growth and inequality. This is the case although, since 1924, the International Labor Organization (ILO) has conducted an October Inquiry to obtain data...

The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity. Based on novel data consisting of official firm data from the German Business Register including ownership information from Bureau van Dijk’s MARKUS database and from the...

In the project “Combined firm data for Germany” (KombiFiD) firm data from different institutions were merged and made available for research for the first time. The institutions involved in the project faced considerable challenges both due to the narrow legal limits underlying such a...

Whereas the literature on additive measurement error has known a considerable treatment, less work has been done for multiplicative noise. In this paper we concentrate on multiplicative measurement error in the covariates, which contrary to additive error not only modies proportionally the...

Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit der Untersuchung der Auswirkungen der datenverändernden Anonymisierungsverfahren ’variablenspezifische abstandsorientierte Mikroaggregation’ (vaabMA, im Englischen auch als Individual Ranking bezeichnet) und ’multiplikative stochastische Überlagerung’...

Eines der wichtigsten Verfahren zur Anonymisierung von Betriebs- und Unternehmensdaten ist die stochastische Überlagerung. Ihr Einsatz zur Sicherstellung der faktischen Anonymität der Einheiten eines Datensatzes führt jedoch zu inkonsistenten Schätzungen von linearen Panelmodellen und macht...

"In the project 'Combined firm data for Germany' (KombiFiD) firm data from different institutions were merged and made available for research for the first time. The institutions involved in the project faced considerable challenges both due to the narrow legal limits underlying such a merging...