"The Vocational and Career Psychology Service (BPS) of the German National Employment Agency has developed four new services for competence assessment. They can be used by job placement officers and case workers to better identify soft skills of their customers and use the results for job search...

"The IAB-Job Vacancy Survey (IAB-JVS) is the only establishment survey in Germany which contains information about vacancies and new hires on an occupational level. When the new German Classification of Occupations 2010 was introduced, it became necessary to integrate it into the IAB-JVS. This...

"Das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) hat in 2006 eine Studie im Niedrigeinkommensbereich als Haushaltspanel aufgesetzt (PASS - Panel Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung), die eine neue Datengrundlage für die Funktionsweise und Folgen des neuen Sozialsystems SGB II in...

Das IAB-Betriebspanel wird seit 1993 in den alten Bundesländern und seit 1996 auch in den neuen Bundesländern durchgeführt. Dabei werden Unternehmen in regelmäßigen Abständen zu folgenden Themen befragt: Beschäftigungsentwicklung, betriebliche Investitionen, Personalpolitik,...

Das IAB-Betriebspanel wird seit 1993 in den alten Bundesländern und seit 1996 auch in den neuen Bundesländern durchgeführt. Dabei werden Unternehmen in regelmäßigen Abständen zu folgenden Themen befragt: Beschäftigungsentwicklung, betriebliche Investitionen, Personalpolitik,...

This Discussion Paper documents a survey conducted in rural China in 2005. A multi-topic survey funded by the Sino-German international Training Program Sustainable Resource Use in North China, the project covers farm management, land property rights and rural credit access on the North China...

"The task approach is attracting increasing attention and recognition among scholars in economics, sociology and related fields. However, measurement still presents an important challenge to the task approach. This paper studies the comparability of task measures in the commonly used German...

"The IAB Establishment Panel was launched to obtain information on the demand side of the labor market. This data meets two requirements: providing high quality data for the scientific aims and having an information system for policy makers and practitioners. As it started in 1993 a rich data...

"On the one side the success of the IAB Establishment Panel Survey can be traced to the high response rate and the excellent data quality necessary for panel analyses as well as the unique possibility to use the establishment register of the Employment Statistics of the Federal Employment Agency...