"This Methodenreport systematically compiles existing datasets in Germany and explores their suitability for evaluation of sectoral minimum wages according to the German 'Arbeitnehmer-Entsendegesetz' (posted workers act). It aims at making new data sources known, assessing the potential of data...

"Currently, most surveys ask for occupation with open-ended questions. The verbatim responses are coded afterwards into a classification with hundreds of categories and thousands of jobs, which is an error-prone, time-consuming, and costly task. Research related to the coding of occupations is...

"We develop a new method for identifying married couples in administrative data. Using address and name data from the universe of employment records in Germany we find around 3.3 million pairs of individuals who are living at the same location, have a matching last name and are less than 15...

"The administrative data of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) holds the daily gross pay for each person. For specific research questions however the net wage is of greater importance. The aim of this methodic report is to offer a first approach for the calculation of net wages as well as the...

"This report documents the PASS interviewer survey which was conducted in November 2010. Altogether 253 interviewers who worked as interviewers for PASS wave 4 or 5 participated in a web survey focusing on their personality, attitudes and motivations and on strategies they use on their job. The...

"The research project 'Bonuses, wage increases and fairness' analyzes aspects of a reasonable payment for work. In particular, it investigates under which circumstances high salaries or bonus payments for specific occupational groups are accepted as fair by the working public. An important part...

"Das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) hat in 2006 eine Studie im Niedrigeinkommensbereich als Haushaltspanel aufgesetzt (PASS - Panel Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung), die eine neue Datengrundlage für die Funktionsweise und Folgen des neuen Sozialsystems SGB II in...

"We present new register data from the German public employment service. The data contain daily information on the timing of three policy tools that aim at reintegration of the unemployed: invitations to individual meetings with the caseworker, vacancy referrals, and integration contracts. The...

"This report contains an analysis of nonresponse bias in the IAB survey ALWA ('Working and Learning in a Changing World'). Besides the usual processes of attrition in standardized surveys, which result from persons who cannot be reached and persons who do not cooperate, two additional sources of...