Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31870 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IAB-Discussion Paper No. 5/2004
Publisher: 
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg
Abstract: 
This paper illustrates the effects of item-nonresponse in surveys on the results of multivariate statistical analysis when estimation of productivity is the task. To multiply impute the missing data a data augmentation algorithm based on a normal/Wishart model is applied. Data of the German IAB Establishment Panel from waves 2000 and 2001 are used to estimate the establishment’s productivity. The processes of constructing, editing, and transforming the variables needed for the analyst’s as well as the imputer’s models are described. It is shown that standard multiple imputation techniques can be used to estimate sophisticated econometric models from large-scale panel data exposed to item-nonresponse. Basis of the empirical analysis is a stochastic production frontier model with labour and capital as input factors. The results show that a model of technical inefficiency is favoured compared to a case where we assume different production functions in East and West Germany. Also we see that the effect of regional setting on technical inefficiency increases when inference is based on multiply imputed data sets. This could have influence on the economic and regional policies in Germany in the future.
Subjects: 
IAB-Betriebspanel
multivariate Analyse
Datenanalyse
Befragung
Unternehmen
Antwortverhalten
statistische Methode
Schätzung
regionale Disparität
Ökonometrie - Modell
technischer Fortschritt
Produktivität
Markov-Ketten
Monte-Carlo-Methode
Ostdeutschland
Westdeutschland
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
JEL: 
C15
C81
D24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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