"Der Mangel an wissenschaftlichen Analysen über die horizontale berufliche Mobilität ist vor allem das Ergebnis der Definitions- und Interpretationsprobleme, die mit der Operationalisierung dieses Sachverhaltes verbunden sind. Operationalisiert man berufliche Mobilität über Wechsel der...

"The use of process-produced data plays a large and growing role in empirical labor market research. To address data problems, previous research have developed deductive correction rules that make use of within-person information. We test data reliability and the effectiveness of different...

"Event history calendars (EHC) have proven to be a useful tool to collect retrospective autobiographic life course data. One problem is that they are only standardized to some extent. This limits their applicability in large-scale surveys. However, in such surveys a modularized retrospective...

"Event history calendars (EHC) have proven to be a useful tool to collect retrospective autobiographic life course data. One problem is that they are only standardized to some extent. This limits their applicability in large-scale surveys. However, in such surveys a modularized retrospective...

"Further education and training activities are considered to be recalled only with difficulty. Therefore non-formal and informal training activities have mostly not been collected in retrospective surveys. Within the framework of the IAB-ALWA study 'Working and Learning in a Changing World' also...

"Der Mangel an wissenschaftlichen Analysen über die horizontale berufliche Mobilität ist vor allem das Ergebnis der Definitions- und Interpretationsprobleme, die mit der Operationalisierung dieses Sachverhaltes verbunden sind. Operationalisiert man berufliche Mobilität über Wechsel der...

"Further education and training activities are considered to be recalled only with difficulty. Therefore non-formal and informal training activities have mostly not been collected in retrospective surveys. Within the framework of the IAB-ALWA study 'Working and Learning in a Changing World' also...

"Since the early 90's the West German firms have to deal with sharp changes of economic environment: the German Unification, the emerging competitors in the east European countries and the deregulation of several labour market institutions. We analyse the wage structure, the wage changes and the...

"Often the high level of unemployment in Germany is explained by a lack of flexibility, over-regulation in the labour market and disincentives of the social security system. However, these institutional effects are difficult to test by means of data from only one country. Cross-country...

"Formen der Dezentralisierung wie Gruppenarbeit und Center-Konzepte prägen die Diskussion in der Industrie- und Organisationssoziologie seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre bis heute. Bisher fehlt aber eine detaillierte Auseinandersetzung mit der Einführungsdynamik und den Bedingungen der...