Extracting firm information from administrative records: The ASSD Firm Panel

M Fink, E Kalkbrenner, C Zulehner, Andrea Weber

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    Abstract (may include machine translation)

    This paper demonstrates how firm information can be extracted from administrative
    social security records. We use the Austrian Social Security Database (ASSD) and derive
    firms from employer identifiers in the universe of private sector workers. To correctly pin
    down entry end exits we use a worker flow approach which follows clusters of workers as
    they move across administrative entities. This procedure enables us to define different
    types of entry and exit such as start-ups, spinoffs, closures, or take-overs. We show that
    our firm definition results in a demography which is comparable to official statistics of
    firm registers. The resulting database, covering the period of 1976 to 2006, is a valuable
    resource for future research on industry evolution in Austria
    Original languageEnglish
    Place of PublicationLinz
    PublisherJohannes Kepler University Linz
    Number of pages23
    StatePublished - 2010

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