COST Network: Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data: Industry Dynamics, Firm Performance, and Worker Outcomes
Objectives
Contacts
Management Committee/
Countries
Future Activities
ConferenceMC Meeting
Past Activities
Intangible Investment
Industry Dynamics
Innovation and Globalization
Transition and Development
Wages and Firms
CAED Conference 2008
Industry Dynamics
Innovation and Globalization
Transition and Development
Wages and Firms
CAED Conference 2008
Working Group Papers
Industry DynamicsFirm Performance
Worker Outcomes
Data Access and Quality
Interdisciplinary Papers
Links
COST main websiteCOST CAED network
COST STRIKE network
CEU Labor Project
Objectives
Main/primary objective
The main objective of the network is to enhance international collaboration to produce cross-country comparative research using improved data to study the firm-level sources of economic growth and the consequences of the growth process for workers.Secondary objectives
- Stimulate international collaboration through conferences and workshops and widen the network to more participants, including early stage and under-represented researchers.
- Use firm-level data to analyze the microeconomic sources of economic growth and the consequences for workers.
- Bring together academic researchers with policy makers and data providers from National Statistical Institutions.
- Share data and econometric methodologies among researchers.
- Share methods of data collection, variable definition, and access and confidentiality among data providers.
- Work to include and mentor junior researchers and to improve the gender balance.
- Develop the capacity of new member states, East European, and former Soviet economies to produce high quality firm-level data and the scholarly abilities to analyze them.
- Draw out policy implications of the research wherever possible and encouraging participants to publish such implications.
- Encourage interdisciplinarity in recognition of the multi-faceted nature of the economic and social problems addressed in this research (sociologists, political scientists, demographers, geographers, and representatives of industry to be invited to the Conferences and Working Groups).