The Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies

Abstract

"The Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA), which is located at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), provides high quality micro data on the German labour market. With the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB), the FDZ offers a new data set for the analysis of individual labour market biographies in Germany. A main goal of providing the SIAB is to make well-documented high quality data on labour market biographies available to the scientific community. It replaces prior individual biography data of the FDZ, such as the IAB Employment Samples (IABS) and the Sample of the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEBS). The SIAB provides a large data basis of more than 1.5 million individuals and combines the advantages of both predecessors, namely the IABS's long observation period with the IEBS's comprehensive set of variables. The remainder of the article is designated to detail a description of the current version of the weakly anonymous SIAB data set." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Dorner, M., Heining, J., Jacobebbinghaus, P. & Seth, S. (2010): The Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies. In: Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 130, No. 4, p. 599-608. DOI:10.3790/schm.130.4.599