"'Working and Learning in a Changing World', or ALWA (the acronym being derived from the study's German name 'Arbeiten und Lernen im Wandel'), is a dataset which was collected as part of the research-project 'Qualifications, Competencies and Working Life' carried out by the department 'Education...

Biografische Kalender (EHC) haben sich als ein nützliches Instrument zur Erfassung retrospektiver autobiografischer Lebensverlaufsdaten erwiesen. Problematisch ist allerdings, dass biographische Kalender nur zu einem gewissen Grad standardisiert sind, was deren Einsetzbarkeit in...

"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...

Biografische Kalender (EHC) haben sich als ein nützliches Instrument zur Erfassung retrospektiver autobiografischer Lebensverlaufsdaten erwiesen. Problematisch ist allerdings, dass biographische Kalender nur zu einem gewissen Grad standardisiert sind, was deren Einsetzbarkeit in...

"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...

"Researchers analyzing wages with the German IAB employment sample are confronted with a censoring problem: The data comes from the social security accounts. Therefore the wages are only given up to the contribution limit of the social security (A documentation of the data set is found in...

"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...

"The IAB Establishment Panel now consists of 12 waves from 1993-2004, which are available for research use in the Research Data Centre of the Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research. Due to repeated surveys of the same establishments, individual processes within the...