The IAB employment subsample 1975-1995

Abstract

"The anonymised IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in anonymised version. Following the so-called basis file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975 to 1995 and contains for the first time information on Eastern Germany for the period 1992 to 1995. Therefore, the IAB employment subsample is equipped with data of one percent of all employees registered by the social insurance system within the given period of 21 years. It contains exact daily flow information on the employment history of 559,540 persons as recorded by the social insurance system and on periods of drawing benefits as well. It allows reproducing employment careers without typical problems of longitudinal surveys which do arise in social research (e.g. panel mortality, memory gaps). Nevertheless there are specific problems which appear as a result of the data generation process. First of all, we will give a short overview of the data generating process and the data characteristics. A discussion of the variables and the anonymisation procedures are given (chapter 3). A brief discussion of data access (chapter 4) will follow and with a conclusion the article ends." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Bender, S., Haas, A. & Klose, C. (2000): The IAB employment subsample 1975-1995. In: Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 120, No. 4, p. 649-662.