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Using population representative survey data fromthe German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and administrative pension records from the Statutory Pension Insurance, the authors compare four statisticalmatching techniques to complement survey information on net worth with social security wealth (SSW) information from the administrative records. The unique properties of the linked. - data allow for a straight ...
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Sociological Methods & Research
42 (2013), 2, S. 192-224
| Anika Rasner, Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
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Research usually finds a positive size-efficiency relationship, but few studies focus on sectors dominated by small and medium-sized firms (SMEs). This paper fills this gap by analyzing this relationship in the German mechanical engineering industry sector, which is both successful and increasingly dominated by SMEs. The analysis, using a large and representative dataset, finds that small and large ...
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Small Business Economics
40 (2013), 2, S. 335-350
| Alexander Schiersch
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In social science literature there is a wide range of effectiveness studies for early education and care programmes for young children. But these studies usually distinguish the effects of these programmes without considering their costs. This is where efficiency analysis studies in Economics begin. This article presents three fundamental approaches to efficiency analysis before looking in more detail ...
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Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft
16 (2013), 2, S. 333-354
| C. Katharina Spieß
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Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In the end these trade-offs determine the effectiveness of policy with respect to the material situation of families and employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of trade-offs involved using a careful selection of potential changes to the system of financial support for ...
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Baltic Journal of Economics
13 (2013) 2, S. 59-83
| Michal Myck, Anna Kurowska, Michal Kundera
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At the height of the economic crisis in mid-2009, the number of Germany's shorttime workers peaked at 1.5 million. Unemployment would otherwise have increased by approximately twice as much as it did. But while short-time work certainly helped to cushion the labour market impact of the crisis in Germany, the authors caution that the country's specific circumstances preclude simple generalizations regarding ...
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International Labour Review
152 (2013), 2, S. 287-305
| Karl Brenke, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Linking survey data with administrative records is becoming more common in the social sciences in recent years. Regulatory frameworks require the respondent's consent to this procedure in most cases. Similar to non-response, non-consent may lead to selective samples and could pose a problem when using the combined data for analyses. Thus investigating the selectivity and the determinants of the consent ...
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Survey Research Methods
7 (2013), 2, S. 115-131
| Julie M. Korbmacher, Mathis Schröder
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The large-scale natural gas equilibrium model applied in Egging, 2013 combines long-term market equilibria and investments in infrastructure while accounting for market power by certain suppliers. Such models are widely used to simulate market outcomes given different scenarios of demand and supply development, environmental regulations and investment options in natural gas and other resource markets.. ...
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European Journal of Operational Research
231 (2013), 2, S. 503-506
| Daniel Huppmann
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In the debate on global imbalances, the euro area countries received inreasing attention since the outbreak of the financial crisis. While the current account is on balance for the entire area, divergences between individual member states have increased since the introduction of the common currency and are part of the excessive imbalances procedure. This paper explores the determinants of the imbalances ...
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Review of International Economics
21 (2013), 1, S. 6-17
| Ansgar Belke, Christian Dreger
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We examine the global dimension of inflation in 24 OECD countries between 1980 and 2007 in a Phillips curve framework. We decompose output gaps and changes in unit labour costs into common (or global) and idiosyncratic components using a factor analysis and introduce these components separately in the regression. We find that the common component of changes in unit labour costs has a notable impact ...
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
75 (2013), 1, S. 103-122
| Sandra Eickmeier, Katharina Pijnenburg
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For many analysts, the Chinese economy is being spurred on by a bubble in the housing market, probably driven by the fiscal stimulus package and massive credit expansion, with potentially adverse effects on the real economy. The house price development is investigated by panel cointegration techniques. Evidence is based on a data-set for 35 major cities. Cointegration is detected between real house ...
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Urban Policy and Research
31 (2013), 1, S. 27-39
| Christian Dreger, Yanqun Zhang