The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...

Methods for the analysis of linked employer-employee data are not yet available in standard econometrics packages. In this paper, we make the fixed-effects methods developed orginally by Abowd, Kramarz, Margolis and others more accessible, where possible, and show how they can be implemented in...

The education variable in the IAB employment subsample has two shortcomings : missing values and inconsistencies with the reporting rule. We propose several deductive imputation procedures to improve the variable. They mainly use the multiple education information available in the data because...

This paper is devoted t.o an interpretation of both vacancy data and the Beveridgecurve. Officially reported vacancy data are critically reviewed. The theoretical foundation and empirical application of the Beveridge-curve is examined. We find that the Beveridge-curve is everything but a...

Remote access as well as remote analysis solve many problems arising from granting researchers access to sensitive data. Both allow to run analyses without actually seeing the data. Therefore none of them demand either substantively altering the data or strictly restricting the access to it....

This paper analyses worker transitions on the German labour market derived from different data sources. These include the two German micro data sets which provide high-frequency observations on workers' employment and unemployment histories: the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and the IAB...