"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...

"In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper considers different interpolation methods for interpolating attributes from German labor office districts to German counties and vice versa. In...

"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...

"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...

"In this paper we derive nonparametric bounds for the cumulative incidence curve within a competing risks model with partly identified interval data. As an advantage over earlier attempts our approach also gives valid results in case of dependent competing risks. We apply our framework to...

"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...

"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...

"The 'Data on Individuals' of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the Federal Employment Agency (BA) which are available from the Research Data Centre (FDZ) include the following: Integrated Employment Biographies (IEBS), IAB Employment Samples 1975-2001 (IABS 1975-2001), the BA...

"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...

"Process-generated and administrative datasets have become increasingly important for labour market research over the past ten years. Major advantages of this data are large sample sizes, absence of retrospective gaps and unit non-responses. Nevertheless, the quality and validity of the...