"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...

"By editing the life course data in ALWA we on the one hand intended to eliminate temporal and substantial inconsistencies in the educational and employment histories, which have been revealed by data analyses of the raw data. On the other hand, with that we wanted to produce a data base for...

"The administrative data of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) holds the daily gross pay for each person. For specific research questions however the net wage is of greater importance. The aim of this methodic report is to offer a first approach for the calculation of net wages as well as the...

"The IAB-ALWA study (Work and Learning in a Changing World) was conducted between September 2007 and March 2008 on behalf of the IAB. The aim of this representative telephone survey was to collect systematically educational and employment histories of 10,000 adults who were between 18 and 50...

"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...

"We develop a new method for identifying married couples in administrative data. Using address and name data from the universe of employment records in Germany we find around 3.3 million pairs of individuals who are living at the same location, have a matching last name and are less than 15...

"Currently, most surveys ask for occupation with open-ended questions. The verbatim responses are coded afterwards into a classification with hundreds of categories and thousands of jobs, which is an error-prone, time-consuming, and costly task. Research related to the coding of occupations is...

"Die Untersuchung 'lidA - leben in der Arbeit - eine Kohortenstudie zu Gesundheit und Älterwerden in der Arbeit' beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Auswirkungen die Anforderungen und Dispositionen der Arbeitswelt auf die Gesundheit älterer Arbeitnehmer haben und wie man ein gesundes...

"In the project 'Combined firm data for Germany' (KombiFiD) firm data from different institutions were merged and made available for research for the first time. The institutions involved in the project faced considerable challenges both due to the narrow legal limits underlying such a merging...

"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 (...