Der Band enthält die Beschreibung der Aufgabengebiete und Strukturmerkmale des Forschungsdatenzentrums, Informationen über die Mittelausstattung und -verwendung, die Personalstruktur, die Nachwuchsförderung und Kooperationen. Ausführlich wird auf die Arbeitsergebnisse, die einzelnen...

"Der FDZ-Methodenreport soll das Einarbeiten in die Personendaten des FDZ der BA im IAB vereinfachen und so zu Zeitersparnissen führen. Die vorgestellten Programme stammen aus unserem 'Workshop zur Einführung in das Arbeiten mit den Personendaten der BA und des IAB', den wir in den letzten...

"The Research Data Center (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Labour Market and Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg for the first time provides a remote access to confidential microdata. Data users can access data of the FDZ from the research data center of the...

"This paper will introduce new methods to estimate the two-way fixed effects model and the match effects model in datasets where the number of fixed effects makes standard estimation techniques infeasible. The methods work for balanced and unbalanced panels and increase the speed of estimation...

"This report describes a Stata procedure on spell splitting that has been developed by the authors. It is particularly suitable for the treatment of very large and/or daily spell data where the usual way of producing time-unit records is not feasible. The report presents also the generation of...

"The report summarizes the results of a project aimed at the completion of household income in the first wave of the 'Panel Arbeitsmarkt und Soziale Sicherung' (PASS) by using multiple imputation routines. The imputation approach chosen is an iterative procedure combining individual information...

"Occupations can be considered as an institution of the labour market, which has varying power to connect the educational system with the labour market. In order to make these institutional characteristics of occupations accessible for empirical analyses, I developed an indicator to measure the...

"Occupations can be considered as an institution of the labour market, which has varying power to connect the educational system with the labour market. In order to make these institutional characteristics of occupations accessible for empirical analyses, I developed an indicator to measure the...

"This report contains an analysis of nonresponse bias in the IAB survey ALWA ('Working and Learning in a Changing World'). Besides the usual processes of attrition in standardized surveys, which result from persons who cannot be reached and persons who do not cooperate, two additional sources of...

"This FDZ-Methodenreport (including codes for Stata) outlines an approach to construct cross-sectional data at arbitrary reference dates when working with the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies. In addition, the construction of biographic variables is described." (Author's abstract,...