"The project 'Further Training as a Part of Lifelong Learning' (Berufliche Weiterbildung als Bestandteil Lebenslangen Lernens - WeLL) focuses on participation in continuous training and its effects on the professional status as well as income development of employees. The main question of the...

"The Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency provides access to high quality micro data on the German labour market. With 'ALWA survey data linked to administrative data of the IAB' (ALWA-ADIAB) it offers a new data set that combines survey information from the ALWA study (...

"'Working and Learning in a Changing World', or ALWA (the acronym being derived from the study's German name 'Arbeiten und Lernen im Wandel'), is a dataset which was collected as part of the research-project 'Qualifications, Competencies and Working Life' carried out by the department 'Education...

"The analysis of FDZ BA data is hampered by changing industry classifications. This report describes two methods to deal with this and provides ready-to-use working tools. The first method is the usage of directional correspondence tables. We create several correspondence tables for the...

"Remote data access as defined as the possibility for a researcher to access and evaluate restricted micro data via a secure internet connection from his home desktop computer at any time has not been implemented by a German Research Data Centre (RDC) so far. Privacy regulations and especially...

"The annual report 2009/10 gives an overview of functions and activities of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). The general function of the FDZ - to prepare individual datasets and make them available for research...

"Das IAB hat infas im Herbst 2009 mit der Durchführung der vierten Erhebungswelle im PASS beauftragt. Der vorliegende Methodenbericht beschreibt die Zusammensetzung der Stichprobe aus Bestands- und Auffrischungsadressen (Kapitel 2), die Befragungspersonen der Studie (Kapitel 3) und geht auf die...

"Im Zeitraum von Februar bis Juni 2011 werden ca. 12.000 Haushalte und etwa 20.000 Personen in Deutschland zu ihrer sozialen Sicherung und Lebensqualität befragt. Es handelt sich hierbei um die fünfte Befragungswelle der IAB-Panelstudie PASS. Der größte Teil der Haushalte wurde bereits...

"The aim of this paper is to analyze unit-nonresponse for establishments surveyed for the first time in the IAB Establishment Panel. Therefore a theoretical framework is presented which helps to explain nonresponse in establishment surveys. Empirical results mainly confirm this framework. If the...

"Im IAB wird derzeit die Anonymisierbarkeit von Paneldaten zur Erstellung von Scientific-Use-Files untersucht. Dabei wurden mithilfe der Multiplen Imputation synthetische Datensätze der Erhebungswelle 2007 des IAB-Betriebspanels erzeugt. Dieses Vorgehen stellt sicher, dass einerseits einzelne...