Ziel des vorgestellten Projekts war, das Merkmal Vollzeit/Teilzeit des Tätigkeitsschlüssels in den Integrierten Erwerbsbiografien der Bundesagentur für Arbeit zu korrigieren. Dies sollte mithilfe des auch in der Verdienststrukturerhebung vorhandenen, aber manuell korrigierten Schlüssels...

Empirical studies on farmland rental rates have predominantly concentrated on modelling conditional means using spatial autoregressive models, where a linear functional form between the response and the covariates is usually assumed. However, if it is in fact non-linear, misspecifying the...

There has been increased interest in the use of "big data" when it comes to forecasting macroeconomic time series such as private consumption or unemployment. However, applications on forecasting GDP are rather rare. In this paper we incorporate Google search data into a Bridge Equation Model, a...