"The fifth wave of the Panel Study 'Labour Market and Social Security' (PASS) includes an experimental Factorial Survey design, which aims to analyse the dynamics of job-related mobility decisions. About 5,000 persons were presented with five hypothetical job offers ('vignettes') each. These...

"The Research Data Center (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg provides access to data of the German Job Vacancy Survey (EGS). The EGS includes information about the labour demand and the recruitment processes on the German...

"The goal of developing a Classification of Occupations 2010 (KldB 2010) was to create an up-to-date and generally accepted classification of occupations for Germany, which on the one hand satisfies the pronounced occupation-specific structuring of the German labor market and on the other hand...

"Die Untersuchung 'lidA - leben in der Arbeit. Kohortenstudie zu Gesundheit und Älterwerden in der Arbeit' beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Auswirkungen die Anforderungen und Dispositionen der Arbeitswelt auf die Gesundheit älterer Arbeitnehmer haben und wie man ein gesundes...

"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...

"The Research Data Center (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Labour Market and Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg for the first time provides a remote access to confidential microdata. Data users can access data of the FDZ from the research data center of the...

"This paper will introduce new methods to estimate the two-way fixed effects model and the match effects model in datasets where the number of fixed effects makes standard estimation techniques infeasible. The methods work for balanced and unbalanced panels and increase the speed of estimation...

"Research data of the Federal Employment Agency as well as surveys of the Institute for Employment Research are highly relevant for the scientific community and policy consulting. These data help to find answers to various research questions regarding employment and occupational research. The...

"By editing the life course data in ALWA we on the one hand intended to eliminate temporal and substantial inconsistencies in the educational and employment histories, which have been revealed by data analyses of the raw data. On the other hand, with that we wanted to produce a data base for...