Zeitnahe Daten in der Corona-Krise: Von der schwierigen Vermessung der Kurzarbeit (Realtime Economic Data in the Covid19-Crisis: On the Difficulty of Measuring Short-Time Work)

Bernd Fitzenberger, Christian Kagerl, Malte Schierholz and Jens Stegmaier
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Bernd Fitzenberger: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany ; FAU
Malte Schierholz: IAB
Jens Stegmaier: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany

No 202124, IAB-Kurzbericht from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "Short-time work (Kurzarbeit) is the main instrument for retaining jobs during the pandemic in Germany and its numbers are treated as one leading indicator on the crisis’s severity. However, quickly available results from firm surveys consistently and considerably overestimated how many employees were in short-time work at any given time, compared to the official statistics that appear with a lag of several months. Leveraging an establishment survey which can be connected to administrative data, the authors investigate reasons for this overestimation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Pandemie; IAB-Datensatz BeCovid; Datengewinnung; Datenqualität; Messfehler; Inanspruchnahme; Kurzarbeit; Kurzarbeitergeld; Messung; amtliche Statistik; Arbeitsplatzsicherung; 2020-2021 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2021-11-15
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