"Further education and training activities are considered to be recalled only with difficulty. Therefore non-formal and informal training activities have mostly not been collected in retrospective surveys. Within the framework of the IAB-ALWA study 'Working and Learning in a Changing World' also...

"Further education and training activities are considered to be recalled only with difficulty. Therefore non-formal and informal training activities have mostly not been collected in retrospective surveys. Within the framework of the IAB-ALWA study 'Working and Learning in a Changing World' also...

"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...

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,...

"The Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) in the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) was founded in 2004 and is intended mainly to facilitate access to BA and IAB microdata for non-commercial empirical research using standardized and transparent access...

"The aim of the present paper is twofold. We first give an overview of the multi-faceted construct of career success with its 'objective' (real attainments) and 'subjective' (perceived attainments) components and with the different methodologies measuring them ('subjectivist' vs. 'objectivist'...

"The Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) in the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) was founded in 2004 and is intended mainly to facilitate access to BA and IAB microdata for non-commercial empirical research using standardized and transparent access...

"Die Aufdeckung komplexer Zusammenhänge zwischen verschiedenen Merkmalen aus dem sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschungsbereich erfordert ein statistisches Analyseverfahren, das nicht nur die Vielzahl der erklärenden Merkmale (Datenvielfalt), sondern auch den Einfluß berücksichtigt, der von der...