"'Working and Learning in a Changing World', ALWA derived from its German name 'Arbeiten und Lernen im Wandel' for short, is a dataset which is collected within the project 'Qualifications, Competencies and Working Life' at the department 'Education and Employment over the Life Course' of the...

"'Working and Learning in a Changing World', or ALWA (the acronym being derived from the study's German name 'Arbeiten und Lernen im Wandel'), is a dataset which was collected as part of the research-project 'Qualifications, Competencies and Working Life' carried out by the department 'Education...

"By editing the life course data in ALWA we on the one hand intended to eliminate temporal and substantial inconsistencies in the educational and employment histories, which have been revealed by data analyses of the raw data. On the other hand, with that we wanted to produce a data base for...

"The IAB-ALWA study (Work and Learning in a Changing World) was conducted between September 2007 and March 2008 on behalf of the IAB. The aim of this representative telephone survey was to collect systematically educational and employment histories of 10,000 adults who were between 18 and 50...

"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. The design of the IAB Establishment Panel was developed in the early 1990s and...

"Das IAB-Betriebspanel ist eine für Deutschland einzigartige, jährliche Betriebsbefragung, da sie bundesweit alle Branchen und Betriebsgrößen repräsentiert und auch im Längsschnitt ausgewertet werden kann. Mittlerweile werden knapp 16.000 Betriebe zu einer Vielzahl...

"Process-generated and administrative datasets have become increasingly important for labour market research over the past ten years. Major advantages of this data are large sample sizes, absence of retrospective gaps and unit non-responses. Nevertheless, the quality and validity of the...

"The fifth wave of the Panel Study 'Labour Market and Social Security' (PASS) includes an experimental Factorial Survey design, which aims to analyse the dynamics of job-related mobility decisions. About 5,000 persons were presented with five hypothetical job offers ('vignettes') each. These...