Only scarce information is available on doctorate recipients' career outcomes in Germany (BuWiN 2013). With the current information base, graduate students cannot make an informed decision whether to start a doctorate (Benderly 2018, Blank 2017). Administrative labour market data could provide...

Individual unemployment spells are frequently interrupted by short casual employment, by participation in active labour market policy (ALMP) measures or by periods outside the labour force. Such episodes end unemployment spells but afterwards the person gets often unemployed again, and the...

Individual unemployment spells are frequently interrupted by short casual employment, by participation in active labour market policy (ALMP) measures or by periods outside the labour force. Such episodes end unemployment spells but afterwards the person gets often unemployed again, and the...

This paper considers the problem of record linkage between a household-level survey and an establishment-level frame in the absence of unique identifiers. Linkage between frames in this setting is challenging because the distribution of employment across establishments is highly skewed. To...

This paper considers the problem of record linkage between a household-level survey and an establishment-level frame in the absence of unique identifiers. Linkage between frames in this setting is challenging because the distribution of employment across establishments is highly skewed. To...

With proactive dependent interviewing respondents are reminded of the answer they gave in the previous interview, before being asked about their current status. We examine the risk that respondents falsely confirm the answers from the previous interview as still applying, using data from a panel...

Zum Vergleich ausgewählter Missing Data Techniken nutzt dieses Papier eine Befragung, in der u. a. die Zustimmung zum Record Linkage der Befragungs- mit administrativen Prozessdaten abgefragt wurde. Bei nicht zustimmenden Befragten, werden ihre gegebenen Antworten auf 'fehlend' gesetzt, um so...

This article presents a comprehensive approach to probabilistic linkage of German company data using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing techniques. Here, the long-running ifo Institute surveys are linked to financial information in the Orbis database by addressing the unique...

This paper discusses the importance of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI),1 particularly its role in monitoring systemic risk, and provides background material for Recommendation ESRB/2020/12 on identifying legal entities in order to support its implementation in the European Union.

In light of Germany's transition approaches towards a sustainable energy system this paper examines differences of employment structure and wage differentials between renewable energy establishments and their sector peers. To do so, we have developed a novel data set by linking company-level...