Arent and Nagl (2013) use the BA Employment panel 1998-2007 to identify effects of the German Hartz reform. Their findings suggest that the reform caused a considerable reduction of wages. Our replication of their study suggests that their clear and strong conclusions are driven by a too coarse...

Arent and Nagl (2013) use the BA Employment panel 1998-2007 to identify effects of the German Hartz reform and find that it caused a considerable reduction of wages. Our replication study suggests that their clear and strong conclusions are based on implausible assumptions regarding the error...

"This data report describes the linked data of the survey 'Further Training as a Part of Lifelong Learning' (WeLL) with administrative data of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the IAB Establishment Panel." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))<br><br><b>Additional Information</b><ul><li><a href='http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2014/DR_01-14_frequencies_labels_de.zip'>Auszählungen</a></li><li><a...</a></li></ul>

We study the relationship between cyclical job and worker flows at the plant level using a new data set spanning from 1976-2006. We find that procyclical labor demand explains relatively little of procyclical worker flows. Instead, all plants in the employment growth distribution increase their...

"The report 20011/13 gives an overview of functions and activities of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). The general work of the FDZ - to prepare individual datasets and make them available for research purposes -...

We study the relationship between cyclical job and worker flows at the plant level using a new data set spanning from 1976-2006. We find that procyclical labor demand explains relatively little of procyclical worker flows. Instead, all plants in the employment growth distribution increase their...

"This FDZ-Methodenreport (including codes for Stata) outlines an approach to construct cross-sectional data at arbitrary reference dates when working with the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies. In addition, the construction of biographic variables is described." (Author's abstract,...

"This FDZ-Methodenreport (including codes for Stata) outlines an approach to construct cross-sectional data at arbitrary reference dates when working with the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies. In addition, the construction of biographic variables is described." (Author's abstract,...

"This data report describes the LIAB-Mover-Model 1993-2008 of the Linked-Employer-Employee-Data from the IAB (LIAB MM 9308). The Linked-Employer-Employee-Data from the IAB (LIAB) contain both establishment data from the annual waves of the IAB Establishment Panel and information on individuals...

"This FDZ data report describes the Regional File of the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies 1975-2008 (SIAB-R 7508). This dataset represents the factual anonymous version of the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) and may be delivered to scientific research...