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The Quality of the KombiFiD-Sample of Business Services Enterprises: Evidence from a Replication Study

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Vogel, A., Wagner, J. The Quality of the KombiFiD-Sample of Business Services Enterprises: Evidence from a Replication Study. Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 132(3), 393-403. https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.132.3.393
Vogel, Alexander and Wagner, Joachim "The Quality of the KombiFiD-Sample of Business Services Enterprises: Evidence from a Replication Study" Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 132.3, 2012, 393-403. https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.132.3.393
Vogel, Alexander/Wagner, Joachim (2012): The Quality of the KombiFiD-Sample of Business Services Enterprises: Evidence from a Replication Study, in: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, vol. 132, iss. 3, 393-403, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.132.3.393

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The Quality of the KombiFiD-Sample of Business Services Enterprises: Evidence from a Replication Study

Vogel, Alexander | Wagner, Joachim

Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 132 (2012), Iss. 3 : pp. 393–403

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Alexander Vogel, Leuphana University Lueneburg, Scharnhorststr. 1, 21335 Lüneburg.

Joachim Wagner, Leuphana University Lueneburg, Scharnhorststr. 1, 21335 Lüneburg.

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This study tests whether the KombiFiD sample can be regarded as a high quality data set for empirical research on enterprises from business services industries. It performs an empirical investigation using the original data in a first step and replicates exactly this investigation using the KombiFiD sample in a second step. We find that large business services firms are oversampled in the KombiFiD agreement sample which leads to a higher share of exporting business services firms compared to the original data. After controlling for firm size and industries results based on the original data and on the KombiFiD sample are highly similar for West German firms. Therefore, the KombiFiD sample can be regarded as a sound base for empirical studies on West German firms from business services industries. For East Germany, however, the number of business services firms seems to be too small for empirical analyses, at least in the field of firm's export participation.