The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...

"This paper provides an analysis of the labour market entry of migrant youth in Germany after completion of an apprenticeship. We are particularly interested in the impact of local cultural diversity on a successful career start. Focusing on the cohort of people completing apprenticeships in...

"In der Debatte über Integrationspolitik für Personen mit Migrationshintergrund kommt der Teilnahme am Arbeitsmarkt eine Schlüsselrolle zu. Der Einstieg über die duale Berufsausbildung stellt für Jugendliche allgemein - aber insbesondere für Migranten, die in den höheren...

"Institutionalised in its own working group, the IAB carries out regional research in order to obtain findings about the development of regional disparities and about the way regional labour markets work. This research also helps in the analysis and discussion of regional labour market policy...

"In the last years the analysis of flow figures turned out to highly informative for labour market research and policy advice. Among researchers it is a well known fact that cross-sectional information about labour market is not sufficient to understand ungoing development. A pure sequence of...

"Für die Arbeitsagenturen stellen die Bewegungen auf den regionalen Arbeitsmärkten entscheidende Größen dar, die es bei der Beratung und Vermittlung wie bei der Ausrichtung der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik zu beachten gilt. Das Mehrkontenmodell (MKM) ermöglicht eine systematische Darstellung...

The role of mobility is central to the debate on reducing unemployment. A further question is to what extent a lack of mobility enforces regional disparities. Using a micro data set containing information about two cohorts we analyse the impact of regional unemployment at district level to...

In the last years the analysis of flow figures turned out to be essential for labour market research and policy advice. The ongoing debate about how flexible is the German labour market could not been answered just analysing stock figures or turnover rates. Here we follow the useful analytical...

"Institutionalised in its own working group, the IAB carries out regional research in order to obtain findings about the development of regional disparities and about the way regional labour markets work. This research also helps in the analysis and discussion of regional labour market policy...