"Providing scientific use files for business surveys is a difficult task. Due to smaller populations, higher sampling rates, and skewed distributions disclosure risks are much higher than for household surveys. Simple measures like coarsening are not sufficient to protect the data. The aim of...

"The aim of this paper is to analyse unit non-response in establishments surveyed for the first time in the IAB Establishment Panel. For this a theoretical framework is presented which helps to explain the decision to participate in establishment surveys. The empirical results largely confirm...

"Many popular estimators for duration models require independent competing risks or independent censoring. In contrast, copula based estimators are also consistent in presence of dependent competing risks. In this paper we suggest a computationally convenient extension of the Copula Graphic...

"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...

"Exclusively for use in academic teaching at universities or research institutes, the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) generated absolutely anonymized data, a so-called campus file (CF), based on the data of the Scientific Use File of the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies...

"The fifth wave of the Panel Study 'Labour Market and Social Security' (PASS) includes an experimental Factorial Survey design, which aims to analyse the dynamics of job-related mobility decisions. About 5,000 persons were presented with five hypothetical job offers ('vignettes') each. These...