"The Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency provides high quality micro data on the German labour market. With the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB), it offers a new data set suited for the analysis of individual working careers. Compared to its...

"This FDZ Datenreport describes the LIAB Cross-sectional Model 2 1993-2008 (LIAB QM2 9308), which is one of the linked employer-employee datasets from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) provided for research analyses by the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency...

"The Establishment History Panel 1975-2008 V1 is a 50% sample of all establishments throughout Germany which have at least one employee liable to social security as of 30th June of a given year or, since 1999, also establishments which have at least one marginal part-time employee. This data...

"Dieser Datenreport beschreibt das LIAB-Querschnittmodell 2 1993-2008 (LIAB QM2 9308). Das LIAB QM2 9308 ist einer der Linked-Employer-Employee-Datensätze des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), die über das Forschungsdatenzentrum (FDZ) der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) im...

"Das Betriebs-Historik-Panel 1975 bis 2006 umfasst alle Betriebe des gesamtdeutschen Raumes, die zum 30. Juni eines Jahres mindestens einen sozialversicherungspflichtigen oder seit 1999 auch geringfügig Beschäftigten aufwiesen. Der Beobachtungszeitraum erstreckt sich von 1975 bis 2006 für...

"Im Zeitraum von Februar bis Juni 2011 werden ca. 12.000 Haushalte und etwa 20.000 Personen in Deutschland zu ihrer sozialen Sicherung und Lebensqualität befragt. Es handelt sich hierbei um die fünfte Befragungswelle der IAB-Panelstudie PASS. Der größte Teil der Haushalte wurde bereits...

"The aim of this paper is to analyze unit-nonresponse for establishments surveyed for the first time in the IAB Establishment Panel. Therefore a theoretical framework is presented which helps to explain nonresponse in establishment surveys. Empirical results mainly confirm this framework. If the...

"'Working and Learning in a Changing World', or ALWA (the acronym being derived from the study's German name 'Arbeiten und Lernen im Wandel'), is a dataset which was collected as part of the research-project 'Qualifications, Competencies and Working Life' carried out by the department 'Education...

"Within the project 'Qualifications, Competencies and Working Life' at the department 'Education and Employment over the Life Course' at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, the infas Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft was contracted to carry out a survey 'Working and...

"Linking survey data with register data can combine the advantages of both types of data and increase the possibilities for analysis compared to the use of the single data sets. The exact linkage of records from the same individual is only legal with the content of the respondent. Moreover, not...