"The Establishment History Panel (BHP) consists of person-related data from the registration for social security contributions which were aggregated on the establishment level. In contrast to the Establishment Panel and the Linked-Employer-Employee Data (LIAB), the BHP is not a random sample but...

"In Germany, process-generated data and survey data on firms are collected by different data producers. Each data producer provides access for researchers to its data, but the combination of datasets from different producers is not possible at the moment. A new project (KombiFiD) aims to...

"The report presents the first results of combining an extract from the German Business Register System of the Federal Statistics Office with the Establishment-History-Panel (BHP) of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). This was done in the context of the feasibility study 'Combined firm...