"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...

In this paper, we remove one serious drawback of the IAB employment sample impeding its applicability to the estimation of earnings frontiers: the censoring of the income data, by multiple imputation. Then, we estimate individual potential income with stochastic earnings frontiers, and we...

"In this paper, we remove one serious drawback of the IAB employment sample impeding its applicability to the estimation of earnings frontiers: the censoring of the income data, by multiple imputation. Then, we estimate individual potential income with stochastic earnings frontiers, and we...

"In this paper, we remove one serious drawback of the IAB employment sample impeding its applicability to the estimation of earnings frontiers: the censoring of the income data, by multiple imputation. Then, we estimate individual potential income with stochastic earnings frontiers, and we...

"Unemployment information in individual level register data depends on institutional settings, administrative procedures and which registers are merged. In this paper we suggest different implementation strategies for common international and German legal unemployment definitions for the Sample...

The figures published annually by the IAB concerning the stock of job vacancies across the economy could potentially provide information about the extent of mismatch unemployment that could be of value in terms of labour market diagnosis. This paper explains that the IAB figures on this do not,...

Das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) führt seit dem Jahr 1989 einmal jährlich eine repräsentative Erhebung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Stellenangebots in Unternehmen und öffentlichen Verwaltungen Deutschlands durch. An der jüngsten Befragung im Herbst 2004 beteiligten...

Taking up the discussion surrounding the reliability of the IAB reports on the stock of vacancies in Germany in this journal (ZAF, issue 1/2005), this paper clears up misunderstandings, corrects incorrect statements, and presents further new arguments. The paper is intended to show that it would...

Wir konzentrieren unsere Anmerkungen auf den - nach Scherl - zentralen Punkt der Diskussion, nämlich die Frage, ob die Zahl der angebotenen 'sofort zu besetzenden Stellen' in der IAB-Erhebung korrekt erfasst wird. Des weiteren befassen wir uns mit dem ausgesprochenen Verdacht der...

"Taking up the discussion surrounding the reliability of the IAB reports on the stock of vacancies in Germany in this journal (ZAF, issue 1/2005), this paper clears up misunderstandings, corrects incorrect statements, and presents further new arguments. The paper is intended to show that it...