Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24608 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 07-041
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
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.
Subjects: 
unemployment duration
merged administrative individual data
Germany
Stata
JEL: 
J64
C81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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