On the definition of unemployment and its implementation in register data: the case of Germany

Thomas Kruppe, Eva Müller, Laura Wichert and Ralf Wilke

No 200703 (en), FDZ-Methodenreport from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

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 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, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Stichprobe der Integrierten Arbeitsmarktbiografien (SIAB); Begriff; Begriff; Datenqualität; Forschungsdatenzentrum; ILO; Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien; Messung; amtliche Statistik; OECD; prozessproduzierte Daten; registrierte Arbeitslosigkeit; Reliabilität; statistische Methode; stille Reserve; Arbeitslosenquote; Arbeitslosenstatistik; Arbeitslosigkeit; Arbeitslosigkeit; Arbeitslosigkeitsdauer; Validität; 2000-2003 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2007
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Published in/as: Schmollers Jahrbuch. Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Jg. 128, Nr. 3 (2008), S. 461-488, doi:10.3790/schm.128.3.461

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Journal Article: On the Definition of Unemployment and its Implementation in Regis-ter Data - The Case of Germany (2008)
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