"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...

"Answers to retrospective questions in surveys often contain gaps or incomplete details of remembered episodes. In order to correct for these errors, administrative data can be linked to surveys. The focus of this article is on the potentials and problems linking administrative and survey data....

"The IAB Establishment Panel is an annual survey of establishments and is unique in Germany, as it represents all industries and establishment sizes nationwide and can also be analysed on a longitudinal basis. The design of the IAB Establishment Panel was developed in the early 1990s and...

This datareport describes the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) 1975-2008.<br><br><b>Additional Information</b><ul><li><a href='http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2010/DR_01-10.pdf'>German version</a></li><li><a href='http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2010/MR_09-10-EN.pdf'>Here you can find a short discription of the sample.</a></li></ul>

"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 (...

"The Establishment History Panel 1975-2008 V1 is a 50% sample of all establishments throughout Germany which have at least one employee liable to social security as of 30th June of a given year or, since 1999, also establishments which have at least one marginal part-time employee. This data...

"The Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency provides high quality micro data on the German labour market. With the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB), it offers a new data set suited for the analysis of individual working careers. Compared to its...

"This FDZ Datenreport describes the LIAB Cross-sectional Model 2 1993-2008 (LIAB QM2 9308), which is one of the linked employer-employee datasets from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) provided for research analyses by the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency...