"Researchers in Germany have nowadays access to confidential micro data compiled from official statistics in a way that could not have been dreamt of just a few years ago. This paper describes the new institutions that grant data access - most importantly the research data centers located inside...

"Die FDZ entwickeln das Datenangebot für die wissenschaftliche Forschung kontinuierlich auf der Basis des bestehenden Datenbedarfs und in Kooperation mit der Wissenschaft weiter. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand des Datenangebotes und beschreibt einige...

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit Verknüpfungsproblemen der Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels mit den prozessproduzierten Daten der Beschäftigten-Leistungsempfänger-Historik in den LIAB-Versionen, die über das Forschungsdatenzentrum der BA im IAB externen Forschern zugänglich sind. Diese...

"In the project 'Combined firm data for Germany' (KombiFiD) firm data from different institutions were merged and made available for research for the first time. The institutions involved in the project faced considerable challenges both due to the narrow legal limits underlying such a merging...

"The Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency provides access to high quality micro data on the German labour market. With 'ALWA survey data linked to administrative data of the IAB' (ALWA-ADIAB) it offers a new data set that combines survey information from the ALWA study (...

"In the project 'Combined firm data for Germany' (KombiFiD) firm data from different institutions were merged and made available for research for the first time. The institutions involved in the project faced considerable challenges both due to the narrow legal limits underlying such a merging...

"The Research Data Center (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg provides access to data of the German Job Vacancy Survey (EGS). The EGS includes information about the labour demand and the recruitment processes on the German...

"This FDZ Methodenreport describes the files and variables containing the person and establishment effects estimated by Card, Heining, and Kline 2013 and how this information may be combined with several of the data products available at the research Data Center (FDZ) of the German Federal...

"Following the exceedingly positive response to our Annual Report 2007, you now have the Annual Report 2008 of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research in this FDZ Methodenreport. Like last year, the FDZ Annual Report 2008 is not a...

"Nach den beiden Evaluationen 2006 durch den Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten und 2007 durch den Wissenschaftsrat möchte das Forschungsdatenzentrum der Bundesagentur für Arbeit im Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (FDZ) in Zukunft regelmäßig über seine Aktivitäten...