Firm-Level Data
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Building on Progress: Expanding the Research Infrastructure for the Social, Economic, and Behavioral Sciences. ed. / German Data Forum (RatSWD). Vol. 2 Opladen & Farmington Hills: Budrich UniPress , 2010. p. 1001-1014.
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T1 - Firm-Level Data
AU - Wagner, Joachim
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This article discusses the use of enterprise- and establishment-level data from official statistics to document stylized facts, motivate assumptions used in formal theoretical models, test hypotheses derived from theoretical models, and 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.
AB - This article discusses the use of enterprise- and establishment-level data from official statistics to document stylized facts, motivate assumptions used in formal theoretical models, test hypotheses derived from theoretical models, and 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.
KW - Economics
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-3-940755-58-2
VL - 2
SP - 1001
EP - 1014
BT - Building on Progress
A2 - , German Data Forum (RatSWD)
PB - Budrich UniPress
CY - Opladen & Farmington Hills
ER -