"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...

"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...

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit Verknüpfungsproblemen der Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels mit den prozessproduzierten Daten der Beschäftigten-Leistungsempfänger-Historik in den LIAB-Versionen, die über das Forschungsdatenzentrum der BA im IAB externen Forschern zugänglich sind. Diese...

"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...

"Dieses LIAB-Datenhandbuch beschreibt die Linked Employer-Employee Daten des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), wie sie über das Forschungsdatenzentrum (FDZ) der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) im IAB für wissenschaftliche Auswertungen zur Verfügung stehen. Die Linked...

Zur Verbesserung des Datenzugangs zu den beschäftigungsstatistischen Einzeldaten der BA wurde das faktisch anonymisierte Scientific Use File "BA-Beschäftigtenpanel" erstellt. Die vorrangige Datenquelle für das Panel sind die Meldedaten aus der Beschäftigungsstatistik. Auf dieser Grundlage...

"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>

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

"In Germany, process-generated data and survey data on firms are collected by different data producers. Each data producer provides access for researchers to its data, but the combination of datasets from different producers is not possible at the moment. A new project (KombiFiD) aims to...