"In this paper a new typology is proposed for the empirical analysis of job supply proc-esses. On the basis of this a schema is developed for a 'job supply account' in which stock and flow values, differentiated according to the type of process are recorded fully and linked systematically....

"Based on the two IAB establishment surveys - the IAB Establishment Panel and the IAB Job Vacancy Survey - this report sheds light on the German labour market from the firms' perspective and gives information about the labour demand and resulting skills shortages for the years 2006 to 2012. With...

"The tense situation on the training place market induced the IAB to place the emphasis of the survey in the IAB establishment panel for western Germany in 1995 on the training behaviour of companies. This employer survey, which has been carried out by Infratest for the IAB every year since 1993...

Dieser Beitrag begibt sich mittels multinomialer logistischer Regressionen auf die Suche nach Bestimmungsfaktoren für den Suchverlauf bei erfolgreichen Stellenbesetzungen. Hierzu werden drei Verlaufstypen unterschieden und auf Zusammenhänge insbesondere mit Merkmalen der Stelle und des...

Personnel recruitment processes run very differently and turn out to be more ore less time-consuming and problematical. A planned hiring date can pass by with a job being unfilled. The consequence may be a delayed entrance; sometimes the search for appropriate staff is cancelled without a...

This article provides an overview of the IAB Job Vacancy Survey and its research potential. The IAB Job Vacancy Survey is a quarterly establishment survey covering the (un-)satisfied labor demand in Germany. This survey identifies the entire number of vacancies on the German labor market,...

In this note, we provide evidence on the extent and determinants of sequential versus non-sequential search among German employers. Using unique representative data on employers' recruitment behavior, we exploit direct information on whether employers first formed a pool of applicants from which...

Mit der günstigen wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung sowie dem demografischen Wandel hat die Diskussion um nicht besetzte Fachkräftestellen wieder an Bedeutung gewonnen. Der Bericht will mit Auswertungen auf betrieblicher Ebene zu dieser Diskussion beitragen: In welchem Ausmaß gibt es in den...