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In household panels, typically all household members are surveyed. Because household composition changes over time, so-called following rules are implemented to decide whether to continue surveying household members who leave the household (e.g. former spouses/partners, grown children) in subsequent waves. Following rules have been largely ignored in the literature leaving panel designers unaware of ...
In:
Survey Research Methods
5 (2011), 2, 53-61
| Matthias Schonlau, Nicole Watson, Martin Kroh
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This paper investigates changes in collective bargaining policy in the German cleaning industry in recent years. It uses the Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP) to survey employees on employment conditions and expert interviews with key members of the industry to look at possible new paths of development in the industry as well as the range of attitudes of the players involved. The socio-demography of the ...
In:
Management Revue
16 (2005), 4, 494-511
| Florian Schramm, Michael Schlese
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This article concerns itself with the effects of dismissal protection on personnel management behaviour within companies. The basis of the empirical analysis is 41 expert interviews conducted in 2006 as well as information available from a standardised survey of 750 personnel managers which was carried out in 2007. As a whole the effects of dismissal protection on personnel management are perceived ...
In:
Management revue
18 (2007), 3, 322-349
| Florian Schramm, Michael Schlese
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Berlin:
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin),
2001,
(Discussion Paper No. 244)
| Jörg-Peter Schräpler
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In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch (Proceedings of the "5th International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users", ed. by Holst, Elke; Hunt, Jennifer and Schupp, Jürgen)
123 (2003), 1, 109-124
| Jörg-Peter Schräpler
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2004,
| Jörg-Peter Schräpler
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Many validation studies deal with item nonresponse and measurement error in earnings data. In this article, the author explores respondents’ motives for failing to reveal earnings using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The SOEP collects socioeconomic information from private households in the Federal Republic of Germany. The author explains the evolution of income nonresponse in the SOEP and ...
In:
Sociological Methods & Research
33 (2004), 1, 118-156
| Jörg-Peter Schräpler
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Many validation studies deal with item nonresponse and measurement error in earning data. In this paper, we explore motives of respondents for the failure to reveal earnings using the British Household Panel Study (BHPS). The BHPS collects socio-economic information of private households in Great Britain. We explain the evolution of income-nonresponse in the BHPS and demonstrate the importance of ...
In:
Quality & Quantity
40 (2006), 6, 1013-1036
| Jörg-Peter Schräpler
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In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch (Proceedings of the 7th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2006), ed. by Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Grabka, Markus M. and Kroh, Martin)
127 (2007), 1, 113-125
| Jörg-Peter Schräpler
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This paper focuses on fraud detection in surveys using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data as an example for testing newly methods proposed here. A statistical theorem referred to as Benford's Law states that in many sets of numerical data, the significant digits are not uniformly distributed, as one might expect, but rather adhere to a certain logarithmic probability function. To detect fraud we ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
231 (2011), 5-6, 685-718
| Jörg-Peter Schräpler