Do we measure employment durations correctly?: The case of German administrative employment data

Ursula Jaenichen
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Ursula Jaenichen: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany

No 201810 (en), FDZ-Methodenreport from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "German social security data on employment are based on compulsory notifications by employers on employees at least once a year. To compute individual employment durations, the employment episodes reported in successive notifications have to be concatenated. Several issues in this computation raise the question of whether the durations are measured precisely. Using IAB data on individual employment biographies, the relevance of these issues is demonstrated empirically." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Berufsverlauf; Beschäftigungsdauer; Datengewinnung; Messung; sozialversicherungspflichtige Arbeitnehmer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.5164/IAB.FDZM.1810.en.v1

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