Mit der Verabschiedung des Mindestlohngesetzes wurde zum 1. Januar 2015 ein allgemeiner Mindestlohn in Deutschland eingeführt, der flächendeckend 8,50 Euro/Stunde beträgt. Für Arbeitsverhältnisse von Beschäftigten, die unmittelbar vor Beginn der Beschäftigung langzeitarbeitslos im Sinne...

In the last years access to research data has made a lot of progress in EU countries. Nevertheless transnational access to confidential microdata - although there are some developments like Data without Boundaries - is still complicated and needs improvement. The first part of the paper...

In the last years access to research data has made a lot of progress in EU countries. Nevertheless transnational access to confidential microdata - although there are some developments like "Data without Boundaries" - is still complicated and needs improvement. The first part of the paper...

In the last years access to research data has made a lot of progress in EU countries. Nevertheless transnational access to confidential microdata – although there are some developments like “Data without Boundaries” – is still complicated and needs improvement. The first part of the...

Researchers regularly use administrative micro-data samples to approximate subgroup aggregates from the full population. In this paper, I argue that the most commonly used method to do this is often not optimal. I outline some alternatives and compare their relative performance in selected...

"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...