"The IEBS is a random sample drawn from the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEB) of the IAB. The IEB are not to be understood as a self-contained dataset but as a procedure for merging data from four different sources for the purpose of data quality control and for drawing samples such as the...

"The Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) in the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) was founded in 2004 and is intended mainly to facilitate access to BA and IAB micro data for non-commercial empirical research using standardised and transparent access...

"The main target of the project 'Further Training as a Part of Lifelong Learning' (Berufliche Weiterbildung als Bestandteil Lebenslangen Lernens - WeLL) is to establish a linked employer- employee data set with the particular focus on continuous training that contains information on training...

"The IAB Establishment Panel contains no direct information on establishments' capital stock. This report presents some advice in implementing a capital stock approximation by the perpetual inventory method as proposed by Müller (2008). STATA code is provided in the appendix." (Author's...

"Following the exceedingly positive response to our Annual Report 2007, you now have the Annual Report 2008 of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research in this FDZ Methodenreport. Like last year, the FDZ Annual Report 2008 is not a...

"Das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung hat im September 2006 TNS Infratest Sozialforschung mit der Durchführung des 'Panels Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung' (PASS) beauftragt. Die Erhebung soll eine neue Datengrundlage schaffen, die es ermöglicht, Funktionsweise und Folgen des...

"We consider an extension of conventional univariate Kaplan-Meier type estimators for the hazard rate and the survivor function to multivariate censored data with a censored random regressor. It is an Akritas (1994) type estimator which adapts the nonparametric conditional hazard rate estimator...

Das Forschungsdatenzentrum (FDZ) der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) im Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) hat im Sommer 2005 eine Online- und schriftliche Befragung bei 120 (potenziellen) Nutzerinnen und Nutzern durchgeführt, um bei den zukünftigen Planungen im FDZ besser...

"The education variable in the IAB employment subsample has two shortcomings: missing values and inconsistencies with the reporting rule. We propose several deductive imputation procedures to improve the variable. They mainly use the multiple education information available in the data because...

Ziel des Projektes 'Beitrag zur Qualitätssicherung Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien: Prüfung inhaltlicher Inkonsistenzen' ist es zum einen, für den Datensatz 'Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien' (IEB) und zum zweiten für die Maßnahme-Teilnahme-Grunddatei (MTG) ausgewählte inhaltliche...