"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...

"Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien (IEB) des IAB werden in Zukunft eine der wichtigsten Datenquellen für die Arbeitsmarktforschung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland sein: Für Forschungszwecke können die Prozessdaten der Bundesagentur für Arbeit zu Zeiten der Arbeitsplatzsuche, des...

"The paper investigates the measurement error in end dates of further training programs in the German Integrated Employment Biographies Sample (IEBS) to gain insights on how measurement error in end dates of treatments affects evaluation results and on how to deal with this problem in future...

"Der FDZ-Methodenreport soll das Einarbeiten in die Personendaten des FDZ der BA im IAB vereinfachen und so zu Zeitersparnissen führen. Die vorgestellten Programme stammen aus unserem 'Workshop zur Einführung in das Arbeiten mit den Personendaten der BA und des IAB', den wir in den letzten...

"Unemployment information in individual level register data depends on institutional settings, administrative procedures and which registers are merged. In this paper we suggest different implementation strategies for common international and German legal unemployment definitions for the Sample...

"One out of five participants of further training programs in Germany drops out of the program. Studies on the employment effects of these measures usually consider the start of a program as the treatment and do not deal with the question if the program has been completed. By contrast, this...

"Der Beitrag dokumentiert die Datengenese der für wissenschaftliche Zwecke aufbereiteten Teilnahmemeldungen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit am Beispiel von Förderleistungen im Rahmen des ESF-Programms. 2004 und 2005 wurden systematische Änderungen in den datenliefernden Fachverfahren der...

"Following the two evaluations by the German Council for Social and Economic Data in 2006 and by the German Council of Science and Humanities in 2007, the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research plans to report on its activities...

"Following the exceedingly positive response to our Annual Report 2007, you now have the Annual Report 2008 of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research in this FDZ Methodenreport. Like last year, the FDZ Annual Report 2008 is not a...

"The administrative data of the Institute for Employment Research, which contain the employment history of all German employees, cover only their gross income. For analyses based on net income researchers had to rely on survey data for instance from the Panel Study Labor Market and Social...