"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 report describes the variables of ALWA-LiNu data. The IAB study ALWA ('Work-ing and Learning in a Changing World') was conducted in 2007/08 and contains de-tailed retrospective life course data of 10,404 individuals living in Germany born in between 1956 and 1988. ALWA-LiNu provides...

This report describes the skills tests conducted in the face-to-face (PAPI) interview of the IAB study "Working and Learning in a Changing World" (ALWA). These tests focused on measuring cognitive skills in two domains, prose literacy and numeracy. The major goal of the ALWA study, for which the...

"This report describes the skills tests conducted in the face-to-face (PAPI) interview of the IAB study 'Working and Learning in a Changing World' (ALWA). These tests focused on measuring cognitive skills in two domains, prose literacy and numeracy. The major goal of the ALWA study, for which...

"There are two broad trends in industrialised countries motivating this paper: On the one hand, the life phase between youth and adulthood has prolonged and diversified; on the other hand, entering the labour market has become more complex and insecure. In this paper we combine two aspects of...