"The paper focuses on the development of an index for the intensity of unemployed individuals' search behaviour and on the contribution of search behaviour to explaining empirically determined reintegration prospects. The analyses are based on a survey of 20,000 people, half of whom were from...

"This paper sets forth selected results of the longitudinally-related evaluation of the employment biographies of long-term unemployed people. The focus of attention is the event-analytical consideration of the probability of returning from unemployment back into employment, the significance of...

"The Research Data Center (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Labour Market and Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg for the first time provides a remote access to confidential microdata. Data users can access data of the FDZ from the research data center of the...

"This paper will introduce new methods to estimate the two-way fixed effects model and the match effects model in datasets where the number of fixed effects makes standard estimation techniques infeasible. The methods work for balanced and unbalanced panels and increase the speed of estimation...

"This report describes a Stata procedure on spell splitting that has been developed by the authors. It is particularly suitable for the treatment of very large and/or daily spell data where the usual way of producing time-unit records is not feasible. The report presents also the generation of...

"The report summarizes the results of a project aimed at the completion of household income in the first wave of the 'Panel Arbeitsmarkt und Soziale Sicherung' (PASS) by using multiple imputation routines. The imputation approach chosen is an iterative procedure combining individual information...

"Occupations can be considered as an institution of the labour market, which has varying power to connect the educational system with the labour market. In order to make these institutional characteristics of occupations accessible for empirical analyses, I developed an indicator to measure the...

"Occupations can be considered as an institution of the labour market, which has varying power to connect the educational system with the labour market. In order to make these institutional characteristics of occupations accessible for empirical analyses, I developed an indicator to measure the...

"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...

"This FDZ-Methodenreport (including codes for Stata) outlines an approach to construct cross-sectional data at arbitrary reference dates when working with the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies. In addition, the construction of biographic variables is described." (Author's abstract,...