Linking 'Orbis' Company Data with Establishment Data from the German Federal Employment Agency

AbstractThis study examines a core service of the German Federal Employment Agency for young people: the vocational counseling interview. The leading research questions are as follows: Which expectations do young people have of the counseling session? Which are the most important topics of the interview? What effects could be found after the counseling session? The study uses a pre-post design and is based on a survey of counselees and counselors.

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The Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research (RDC-IAB)

International Journal for Population Data Science ◽

10.23889/ijpds.v4i2.1141 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Manfred Antoni ◽

Alexandra Schmucker

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Social Insurance ◽

Supply And Demand ◽

Data Access ◽

Research Data ◽

Job Seekers ◽

Active Labour Market Policy ◽

Federal Employment ◽

Employment Agency ◽

Data Centre

Background and data portfolioSince 2004, the Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research (RDC-IAB) has been offering comprehensive individual data on employees, unemployed persons, job seekers and participants in active labour market policy programmes for scientific labour market research. For this purpose, data from employer notifications and from different administrative processes in the labour market administration are linked. These administrative data are also combined with survey data. In addition, linked employer-employee data allow simultaneous analyses of the supply and demand sides of the labour market. Data linkageThe data can be linked using unique identifiers, such as social insurance numbers, client numbers from local employment agencies, or establishment numbers. Since the foundation of the German Record Linkage Center (GRLC) in 2011, the RDC-IAB also applies methods for linking with non-unique and error-prone linkage identifiers like names, addresses and birth dates. Data accessGerman data protection law classifies the data offered by the RDC-IAB as highly sensitive and strictly regulates their use by external researchers. The RDC-IAB has therefore established various data access modes. Although data can be transferred directly to research institutions in anonymised form, this procedure is generally not effective for linked data, as the loss of information due to the necessary anonymisation would be too great. For this reason, the RDC-IAB focuses on the access modes on-site use and remote data execution. In cooperation with other data centres, RDC-IAB has therefore established on-site data access at currently 16 locations worldwide.

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The IAB Job Vacancy Survey: design and research potential

Journal for Labour Market Research ◽

10.1186/s12651-020-00278-6 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 54 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Mario Bossler ◽

Nicole Gürtzgen ◽

Alexander Kubis ◽

Benjamin Küfner ◽

Benjamin Lochner

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Survey Design ◽

Labor Demand ◽

Recruitment Process ◽

Employer Attitudes ◽

Federal Employment ◽

Employment Agency ◽

Current Economic Situation ◽

Job Vacancy ◽

Establishment Survey

Abstract This article provides an overview of the IAB Job Vacancy Survey and its research potential. The IAB Job Vacancy Survey is a quarterly establishment survey covering the (un-)satisfied labor demand in Germany. This survey identifies the entire number of vacancies on the German labor market, including those vacancies that are not reported to the Federal Employment Agency. The main questionnaire obtains information about the number and structure of vacancies, future labor demand, the current economic situation and the expected development of participating establishments. In addition, the questionnaire collects information about the last new hiring and the last case of a failed recruitment process. Finally, the questionnaire enquires about employer attitudes and firms’ use of current labor market instruments. The Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency offers access to the data starting from the survey waves 2000 onwards.

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