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IAB Occupational Panel

The IAB Occupational Panel provides a comprehensive database for analyzing the characteristics and development of occupations in Germany. The current version of the panel covers the years 2012 to 2018 and is based on the IAB Employment History (BeH), which contains information on all employees subject to social insurance and marginal part-time employees. The employee characteristics are aggregated at the occupational level as totals or shares, e.g., number of full-time equivalents, number of persons as well as shares by age, qualification, or gender. Data are aggregated at the occupational group level and the requirement level according to the Classification of Occupations 2010 (KldB2010, 3-digit plus 5th digit). For data protection reasons, the dataset only contains information on combinations of „occupational group and requirement level“ which contain  more than 100 persons in 2012 (in 2012, there were 411 of these occupational aggregates). The data have also been merged with occupational information from previous IAB projects, such as the Substitution Potential (Dengler/Matthes 2018a) or the Digital Tools Index (Genz/Janser/Lehmer 2019).

Documentation

Grienberger, Katharina; Janser, Markus; Lehmer, Florian (2022). The Occupational Panel for Germany. Journal of Economics and Statistics. Online First. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jbnst-2022-0053.

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Period surveyed

2012 to 2018

Date of publication

2022/11/12

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Rights of use

The data on the IAB Occupational Panel are published under the following Creative Commons license: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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