"In recent years, macroeconomic data on job vacancies are increasingly in the focus of interest. This is due to the fact, that administrative data on job openings do not cover the macroeconomic information, neither in their structure nor in their extent. In Germany, this gap can be bridged by...

"Currently, most surveys ask for occupation with open-ended questions. The verbatim responses are coded afterwards into a classification with hundreds of categories and thousands of jobs, which is an error-prone, time-consuming, and costly task. Research related to the coding of occupations is...

"We develop a new method for identifying married couples in administrative data. Using address and name data from the universe of employment records in Germany we find around 3.3 million pairs of individuals who are living at the same location, have a matching last name and are less than 15...

"Dieser Datenreport gibt einen Überblick über die vierte Befragungswelle des "Panel Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung - PASS", für die zwischen Februar 2010 und September 2010 11.768 Personen in 7.848 Haushalten befragt wurden. Darunter befanden sich 10.049 Personen und 6.945 Haushalte mit...

"This User Guide is meant to give information on general issues of the panel study 'Labour Market and Social Security' (PASS) and to offer assistance for the work with the datasets of the scientific use file (SUF). While the data reports, which are released for every wave, inform in detail about...

"The administrative data of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) holds the daily gross pay for each person. For specific research questions however the net wage is of greater importance. The aim of this methodic report is to offer a first approach for the calculation of net wages as well as the...

"This report documents the PASS interviewer survey which was conducted in November 2010. Altogether 253 interviewers who worked as interviewers for PASS wave 4 or 5 participated in a web survey focusing on their personality, attitudes and motivations and on strategies they use on their job. The...

"Das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung hat im September 2006 TNS Infratest Sozialforschung mit der Durchführung des 'Panels Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung' (PASS) beauftragt. Die Erhebung soll eine neue Datengrundlage schaffen, die es ermöglicht, Funktionsweise und Folgen des...

"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...

"Im Fokus des Projekts 'Berufliche Weiterbildung als Bestandteil Lebenslangen Lernens' (WeLL) steht die Teilnahme an beruflicher Weiterbildung und ihre Wirkung auf die berufliche Positionierung und Einkommensentwicklung von Arbeitnehmern. Die Studie geht der Frage nach, was Arbeitnehmer zur...