"By editing the life course data in ALWA we on the one hand intended to eliminate temporal and substantial inconsistencies in the educational and employment histories, which have been revealed by data analyses of the raw data. On the other hand, with that we wanted to produce a data base for...

"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 (...

"This FDZ Methodenreport describes the files and variables containing the person and establishment effects estimated by Card, Heining, and Kline 2013 and how this information may be combined with several of the data products available at the research Data Center (FDZ) of the German Federal...

"Die Untersuchung 'lidA - leben in der Arbeit - eine Kohortenstudie zu Gesundheit und Älterwerden in der Arbeit' beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Auswirkungen die Anforderungen und Dispositionen der Arbeitswelt auf die Gesundheit älterer Arbeitnehmer haben und wie man ein gesundes...

"This article describes a new method for the linkage of firm-level data with establishment-level data of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). It has been developed and for the first time applied in the project 'Research on Locational and Organisational Change' (ReLOC). The method makes...

"The administrative data of the Institute for Employment Research, which contain the employment history of all German employees, cover only their gross income. For analyses based on net income researchers had to rely on survey data for instance from the Panel Study Labor Market and Social...

"Im Rahmen der Studie 'Arbeitsqualität und wirtschaftlicher Erfolg: Panelstudie zu Entwicklungsverläufen in 600 deutschen Betrieben' hat das IAB das infas - Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft GmbH mit der Durchführung der Beschäftigtenbefragung beauftragt. Die als Panel angelegte...

"Bei der vorliegenden Untersuchung 'Arbeitsqualität und wirtschaftlicher Erfolg' handelt es sich um eine vertiefende Betriebsbefragung, die in den Jahren 2012 und 2014 im Rahmen des IAB-Betriebspanels durchgeführt wird. Vorgesehen war dabei, dass jeweils rund 600 Betriebe ab einer Größe von...

"In the project 'Combined firm data for Germany' (KombiFiD) firm data from different institutions were merged and made available for research for the first time. The institutions involved in the project faced considerable challenges both due to the narrow legal limits underlying such a merging...

"This report describes the generation of a linked employer-inventor data set, the MPI-IC-IAB-Inventor Data 2002 (MIID 2002), using methods of record linkage. The MIID 2002 combines patent register data comprising inventors residing in Germany and who are listed on patent filings with the DPMA in...