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On the definition of unemployment and its implementation in register data: the case of Germany
Definition von Arbeitslosigkeit und ihre Implementierung in amtliche Daten: Beispiel Deutschland
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Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (IAB) Forschungsdatenzentrum (FDZ)
Abstract "Unemployment information in individual level register data depends on institutional settings, administrative procedures and which registers are merged. In this paper we suggest different implementation strategies for common international and German legal unemployment definitions for the Sample of t... view more
"Unemployment information in individual level register data depends on institutional settings, administrative procedures and which registers are merged. In this paper we suggest different implementation strategies for common international and German legal unemployment definitions for the Sample of the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEBS). The IEBS belongs to a new generation of German merged register data that is more comprehensive than previous data sets. Our descriptive figures show large differences in the number of spells and the unemployment duration across implementations. This suggests that empirical results of labour market research are likely to depend on the underlying legal definition of unemployment and its implementation in this data." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
unemployment; official statistics; process-produced data; duration; measurement; research; data interconnection; statistical method; reliability; validity; quota; unemployed person; secret reserves; data quality; OECD; ILO; Federal Republic of Germany; concept
Classification
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Labor Market Research
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
City
Nürnberg
Page/Pages
34 p.
Series
FDZ Methodenreport, 3/2007
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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