"Die im Jahr 1998 durchgeführte Erhebung des IAB-Betriebspanels hatte 'Innovationen im Betrieb' als Schwerpunktthema. Diese Studie analysiert empirisch die kurzfristigen Beschäftigungseffekte von Produkt- und Prozessinnovationen und den damit zusammenhängenden organisatorischen Änderungen in...

"Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ from those joining incumbent firms, and we use a matching approach to compare a group of...

The paper develops a “holisitic” approach to the further education and training behav-iour of corporations, which is founded on the transaction cost approach. Investments in further education depend on contextual factors, i.e. the company’s investment in mate-rial and immaterial assets,...

"With the IAB Establishment Panel the Institute for Employment Research (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - IAB) has conducted a large-scale annual establishment survey in western Germany since 1993 and also in eastern Germany since 1996, covering some 15,500 establishments in the...

The IAB Establishment Panel was launched to obtain information on the demand side of the labor market. This data meets two requirements: providing high quality data for the scientific aims and having an information system for policy makers and practitioners. As it started in 1993 a rich data set...

Using a linked employer–employee data set for Germany, this paper analyses wage setting in a cohort of newly founded and other establishments from 1997 to 2001. While theory provides alternative explanations for higher or lower wages in newly founded firms, we show empirically that start-ups...

"Since 1993 the IAB has maintained a representative information system of the demand side of the labour market in the form of its establishment panel for western Germany. With the inclusion of the new federal states in 1996, the formation of the IAB panel was completed in the whole of Germany....

The unification of both Germanies and the introduction of the market economy in eastern Germany came as a shock to existing firms and led to an enormous boom in the establishment of new firms. The first section of this paper shows that during the period under observation (January 1991-June 1995)...

"Within the framework of the IAB establishment panel more than 4000 establishments have been interviewed annually in western Germany since 1993 and the same number in eastern Germany since 1996. Although the response rate is high - also in comparison with other establishment surveys - the...