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Improvements and future challenges for the research infrastructure: firm level data
[working paper]
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Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD)
Abstract "This article discusses the use of enterprise- and establishment-level data from official statistics to document stylized facts, to motivate assumptions used in formal theoretical models, to test hypotheses derived from theoretical models, and to evaluate policy measures. It shows how
these data ca... view more
"This article discusses the use of enterprise- and establishment-level data from official statistics to document stylized facts, to motivate assumptions used in formal theoretical models, to test hypotheses derived from theoretical models, and to evaluate policy measures. It shows how
these data can be accessed by researchers in Germany today and reports on recent developments that will offer new and improved datasets that combine data collected in separate surveys and by different agencies. The paper makes three recommendations for future developments in this
area: (1) change the law to make the combination of data collected by different producers easier, (2) combine firm-level data across national borders and make these data available for researchers, and (3) find ways to enable researchers in Germany to work with confidential firm-level data via remote access 24 hours a day and 365 days per year. (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
research; scientist; official statistics; Federal Reserve Bank of Germany; Federal Statistical Office; economic statistics; data access; data preparation; Federal Republic of Germany; development; firm; data protection; data; economic research; bank; enterprise; IAB; labor market research; employment trend; data interconnection; empirical research; data capture; labor statistics
Classification
Economic Statistics, Econometrics, Business Informatics
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Labor Market Research
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
11 p.
Series
RatSWD Working Paper Series, 93
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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