Imputation of the working time information for the employment register data

Abstract

"Due to changes in the data collection method in 2011, German Employment Register data temporarily exhibit an uncharacteristically high share of missing information (25 %) regarding the job activity profile (Tätigkeitsschlüssel). We assess the consequences of this on wage analyses and develop a simple model to impute the missings. To this aim, we compare the predictive power of Logit and linear probability models, classification trees and nonparametric probit models." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Ludsteck, J. & Thomsen, U. (2016): Imputation of the working time information for the employment register data. (FDZ-Methodenreport 01/2016 (en)), Nürnberg, 19 p.