The Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency: data supply and demand between 2004 and 2009

"The Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) in the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) was founded in 2004 and is intended mainly to facilitate access to BA and IAB microdata for non-commercial empirical research using standardized and transparent access rules. Five years after its foundation the FDZ is acknowledged as a producer of innovative data products and has become a visible element of the research community. Furthermore, linkages to other data producers and the internationalization of data products and data access have been promoted by the FDZ." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))Forschungsdatenzentrum, IAB, Bundesagentur für Arbeit, IAB-Betriebspanel, IAB-Betriebs-Historik-Panel, BA-Beschäftigtenpanel, IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe, Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien, IAB-Querschnittsbefragung, IAB-Haushaltspanel, IAB-Linked-Employer-Employee-Datensatz, IAB-Weiterbildungspanel, Daten - Nachfrage, Daten - Angebot, Datenzugang, Datenzugriff, empirische Sozialforschung, Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung

The Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency: Data Supply and Demand between 2004 and 2009

The Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) in the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) was founded in 2004 and is intended mainly to facilitate access to BA and IAB micro data for non-commercial empirical research using standardised and transparent access rules. Five years after its foundation the FDZ is acknowledged as producer of innovative data products and has become an visible element of the research community. Furthermore, linkages to other data producers and the internationalization of data products and data access have been promoted by the FDZ

Determinanten der Verweildauer in Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland

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Integrated employment biographies sample IEBS : handbook for the IEBS in the 2008 version

"The IEBS is a random sample drawn from the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEB) of the IAB. The IEB are not to be understood as a self-contained dataset but as a procedure for merging data from four different sources for the purpose of data quality control and for drawing samples such as the IEBS. The four data sources are - the IAB Employee History (BeH) with observations of employment subject to social security taken from the social security notification procedure, - the Benefit Recipient History (LeH) with observations of receipt of unemployment benefit, unemployment assistance and maintenance allowance, - the Participants-in-Measures History File (MTH) with observations of participation in employment and training measures and - the Applicant Pool Data (BewA) with job-search observations. The most important changes compared with the 2005 version of the IEBS are: Updating of the loading status and inclusion of new variables; the variable 'grund' is recoded in the variable spectrum; the missing values are recoded uniformly to the value -7; reforms of district territories in Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia result in new district numbers from 2007." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) Additional Information Here you can find the German version.Forschungsdatenzentrum, Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien, Daten - Modell

Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) 1975-2008

"The Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency provides high quality micro data on the German labour market. With the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB), it offers a new data set suited for the analysis of individual working careers. Compared to its predecessor, the IAB Employment Samples (IABS), the SIAB contains both a longer observation period and more information on individual labour market histories. It can be regarded as the most comprehensive administrative micro-level data set on employment histories that is currently available for Germany." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) Additional Information Here you can find the documentation of the sample (FDZ-Datenreport 1/2010).Integrierte Arbeitsmarktbiografien, Datenaufbereitung, Datenqualität, Datenzugang, Stichprobe

Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) 1975-2008

This datareport describes the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) 1975-2008. Additional Information German version Here you can find a short discription of the sample.Integrierte Arbeitsmarktbiografien, Datenzugang, Stichprobe, Datenaufbereitung, Datenqualität

The Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency: Data Supply and Demand between 2004 and 2009

The Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) in the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) was founded in 2004 and is intended mainly to facilitate access to BA and IAB micro data for non-commercial empirical research using standardised and transparent access rules. Five years after its foundation the FDZ is acknowledged as producer of innovative data products and has become an visible element of the research community. Furthermore, linkages to other data producers and the internationalization of data products and data access have been promoted by the FDZ.

Brother Sun, Sister Moon: The Lunar Cycle, Sunspots and the Frequency of Births

Based on multivariate linear regression models, we analyze the effect of the lunar cycle and the number of sunspots occurring on a particular day on the number of births using social security data and controlling for a number of other potential confounders. The daily number of births between 1920 and 1989 have been calculated from the full sample of individuals who have been registered at least once in the German social security system. While the lunar cycle does not affect the number of births, the number of sunspots has a positive, albeit small eff ect on the number of births which is decreasing over time. The empirical results may be explained by medical technological progress making natural influences on births less important over time. This interpretation is supported by the results on the intertemporal influence of weekends and holidays on the frequency of daily births.Daily frequency of births; lunar cycle; sunspots

How Substitutable Are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths

To assess the substitutability between workers within a firm, and between incumbent workers and outsiders, we estimate how exogenous worker exits affect a firm’s demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Using matched employer-employee data from Germany, we analyze the effects of 34,000 unexpected worker deaths and show that these worker exits on average raise the remaining workers’ wages and retention probabilities for a period of several years. The average effect masks substantial heterogeneity: Coworkers in the same occupation as the deceased see positive wage effects; coworkers in other occupations instead experience wage decreases when a high-skilled worker or manager dies. Finally, when the external labor market in the deceased’s occupation is thin, incumbents’ wages respond more and external hiring responds less to a worker death. Taken together, our findings imply that incumbent workers are closer substitutes to one another compared to outsiders, that high-skilled workers and managers are complements to coworkers in other occupations, and that thin external markets for skills lead to higher firm-specificity of human capital and lower replaceability of incumbents