This paper analyses worker transitions on the German labour market derived from different data sources. These include the two German micro data sets which provide high-frequency observations on workers' employment and unemployment histories: the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and the IAB...

The basic concept of multiple imputation is straightforward and easy to understand, but the application to real data imposes many implementation problems. To define useful imputation models for a dataset that consists of categorical and of continuous variables with distributions that are...

Unemployment information in individual level register data depends on institutional settings, administrative procedures and which registers are merged. In this paper we suggest different implementation strategies for common international and German legal unemployment definitions for the Sample...

Im Oktober 2004 beauftragte die Hans-Böckler-Stiftung das Soziologische Forschungsinstitut (SOFI) an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen damit, die kurzfristige Machbarkeit eines wissenschaftsgestützten Monitorings zur Neuausrichtung der deutschen Arbeitsmarktpolitik zu untersuchen. Die...

The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...