"This Methodenreport systematically compiles existing datasets in Germany and explores their suitability for evaluation of sectoral minimum wages according to the German 'Arbeitnehmer-Entsendegesetz' (posted workers act). It aims at making new data sources known, assessing the potential of data...

"This report describes the generation of a linked employer-inventor data set, the MPI-IC-IAB-Inventor Data 2002 (MIID 2002), using methods of record linkage. The MIID 2002 combines patent register data comprising inventors residing in Germany and who are listed on patent filings with the DPMA in...

"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...

"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 (...

"This data report describes the linked data of the survey Working and Learning in a Changing World (ALWA) with administrative data of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))<br><br><b>Additional Information</b><ul><li><a href='http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2011/DR_05-11_frequencies_labels_DE.zip'>Fallzahlen</a></li><li><a href='http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2011/DR_05-11_frequencies_labels_EN.zip'>frequencies labels</a></li><li><a href='http://fdz.iab.de/de/FDZ_Individual_Data/ALWA.aspx'>Weitere Informationen zu dem...</a></li></ul>

"Economic research addressing spatial questions is often constrained by the availability of data at a sufficiently fine regional scale. For this reason the 2009 cross-section of the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEB) of the Institute for Employment Research was geocoded. The IEB are...

"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...

"Process-generated and administrative datasets have become increasingly important for labor market research over the past ten years. Major advantages of these data are large sample sizes as well as absence of retrospective gaps and unit non-responses. Nevertheless, the quality and validity of...

"The IEBS is a random sample drawn from the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEB) of the IAB. The IEB are not to be understood as a self-contained dataset but as a procedure for merging data from four different sources for the purpose of data quality control and for drawing samples such as the...