"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...

"Das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) hat in 2006 eine Studie im Niedrigeinkommensbereich als Haushaltspanel aufgesetzt (PASS - Panel Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung), die eine neue Datengrundlage für die Funktionsweise und Folgen des neuen Sozialsystems SGB II in...

"This Datenreport describes the Linked Personnel Panel 2012/2013 (LPP 1213). The LPP is a linked-employer-employee data set on HR work, corporate culture and management instruments in German establishments that evolved within the framework of the project 'Quality of work and economic success'....

"The data set that researchers have used most often to study career interruptions due to childbirth in the German context is the German Socioeconomic Panel. An alternative data source is the much larger IAB Employment Sample (IABS). Although this data set does not include direct information on...

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...

"The paper proposes a memory saving decomposition of the design matrix to facilitate fixed effects estimation of the three-way error component model with high numbers of observations and groups. A common way to estimate such a model is to include two of the effects as dummy variables and to...

Der Band enthält die Beschreibung der Aufgabengebiete und Strukturmerkmale des Forschungsdatenzentrums, Informationen über die Mittelausstattung und -verwendung, die Personalstruktur, die Nachwuchsförderung und Kooperationen. Ausführlich wird auf die Arbeitsergebnisse, die einzelnen...