The basic concept of multiple imputation is straightforward and easy to understand, but the application to real data imposes many implementation problems. To define useful imputation models for a dataset that consists of categorical and of continuous variables with distributions that are...

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...

"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,...