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In this paper, we propose an indicator of the homeownership rate based on Internet ads offering the housing for rent and sale. We constructed the HOR estimate using the number of ads in four different markets (flats for rent, flats for sale, houses for rent, and houses for sale). Our HOR...
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In this paper, we suggest to estimate the home rents and prices in German regions/cities using the data from Internet ads offering the housing for rent and sale. Given the richness of information contained in the ads, we are able to construct the quality-adjusted rent and price indices using the...
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We suggest to use Internet car sale price advertisements for measuring economic inequality between and within German regions. Our estimates of regional income levels and Gini indices based on advertisements are highly, positively correlated with the official figures. This implies that the...
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In this paper we present latest facts about the R&D activities of German multinational companies abroad and R&D activities of foreign companies in Germany. These results confirm that Germany is still an attractive location for R&D activites of multinational companies in many technological...
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Statistische Daten sind im allgemeinen - gemessen an idealtypischen Erhebungsbedingungen - nicht fehlerfrei, insbesondere können sie durch die Art, wie sie erhoben werden, beeinflusst werden ("Erhebungsartefakte"). Interviewereffekte spielen in diesem Zusammenhang in der Literatur eine...
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. For thi study we use the database of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The GSOEP is a longitudinal survey … methodological information about the survey methods utilized and the characteristics of the interviewer. The paper will focus on the …
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Many validation studies deal with item-nonresponse and measurement error in earnings data. In this paper we explore motives of respondents for the failure to reveal earnings using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). GSOEP collects socio-economic information of private households in the...
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survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a … interaction among the participants, with a survey of non-interacting respondents in a smooth and inexpensive way. We illustrate … the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey …
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survey results are based on "artificial fakes" generated by project students in a "laboratory environment". In contrast … fakes on survey results. The major result is that the faked records has no impact on the mean and the proportions. But in …
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than could be expected from the whole survey. We focus on fabricated data, which were taken out of the survey before the …
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