The establishment of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI): the first step in the development of an accounting profession in post-independence India [PDF]
, 2006 This paper analyses the influence of culture and politics on the establishment of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) using a theoretical framework, extending the work of Gray (1988) and McKinnon (1986) in which accounting change is ...
Gray, S.J., Verma, S.
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Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) 1975-2008 [PDF]
"The Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency provides high quality micro data on the German labour market. With the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB), it offers a new data set suited for the analysis of individual
Dorner, Matthias +3 more
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Releasing multiply-imputed synthetic data generated in two stages to protect confidentiality [PDF]
"To protect the cofidentiality of survey respondents' identities and sensitive attributes, statistical agencies can release data in which cofidential values are replaced with multiple imputations. These are called synthetic data.
Drechsler, Jörg, Reiter, Jerome P.
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To recruit skilled workers or to train one's own? : vocational training in the face of uncertainty as to the rate of retention of trainees on completion of training [PDF]
"The article deals with the impact of uncertainty as regards the retention of trainees completing vocational training programmes on firms' training behaviour.
Bellmann, Lutz, Janik, Florian
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Do changes in regulation affect employment duration in temporary work agencies? [PDF]
"Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing the maximum period for hiring-out employees and allowing temporary work agencies to conclude fixed-term contracts.
Antoni, Manfred, Jahn, Elke J.
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Development of a panel dataset from the IAB Establishment Panel cross-sectional data [PDF]
"The IAB Establishment Panel now consists of 12 waves from 1993-2004, which are available for research use in the Research Data Centre of the Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research.
Alda, Holger +3 more
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Codebook and documentation of the panel study 'Labour Market and Social Security' (PASS) : vol. 1: Introduction and overview, wave 1 (2006/2007) [PDF]
"The panel study 'Labour Market and Social Security' (PASS), established by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), is a new dataset for labour market, welfare state and poverty research in Germany, creating a new empirical basis for the scientific ...
Achatz, Juliane +7 more
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Multiple imputation of missing values in the wave 2007 of the IAB Establishment Panel [PDF]
"The basic concept of multiple imputation is straightforward and easy to understand, but the application to real data imposes many implementation problems.
Drechsler, Jörg
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The IAB establishment panel : from sample to survey to projection [PDF]
"The IAB Establishment Panel is an annual survey of establishments and is unique in Germany, as it represents all industries and establishment sizes nationwide and can also be analysed on a longitudinal basis.
Fischer, Gabriele +3 more
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Individual employment effects of job creation schemes in Germany with respect to sectoral heterogeneity [PDF]
"Job creation schemes (JCS) have been one important programme of active labour market policy (ALMP) in Germany for a long time. They aim at the re-integration of hard-to-place unemployed into regular employment.
Caliendo, Marco +2 more
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