Record Linkage of GDR’s ‘Data Fund of Societal Work Power’ With Administrative Labour Market Biography Data of the German Federal Employment Agency

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred Antoni
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Record Linkage ◽  
Federal Employment ◽  
Employment Agency

scholarly journals The Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research (RDC-IAB)

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred Antoni ◽  
Alexandra Schmucker
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Active Labour Market Policy ◽  
Federal Employment ◽  
Employment Agency ◽  
Data Centre

Background and data portfolioSince 2004, the Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research (RDC-IAB) has been offering comprehensive individual data on employees, unemployed persons, job seekers and participants in active labour market policy programmes for scientific labour market research. For this purpose, data from employer notifications and from different administrative processes in the labour market administration are linked. These administrative data are also combined with survey data. In addition, linked employer-employee data allow simultaneous analyses of the supply and demand sides of the labour market. Data linkageThe data can be linked using unique identifiers, such as social insurance numbers, client numbers from local employment agencies, or establishment numbers. Since the foundation of the German Record Linkage Center (GRLC) in 2011, the RDC-IAB also applies methods for linking with non-unique and error-prone linkage identifiers like names, addresses and birth dates. Data accessGerman data protection law classifies the data offered by the RDC-IAB as highly sensitive and strictly regulates their use by external researchers. The RDC-IAB has therefore established various data access modes. Although data can be transferred directly to research institutions in anonymised form, this procedure is generally not effective for linked data, as the loss of information due to the necessary anonymisation would be too great. For this reason, the RDC-IAB focuses on the access modes on-site use and remote data execution. In cooperation with other data centres, RDC-IAB has therefore established on-site data access at currently 16 locations worldwide.

Zuwanderung als Chance nutzen

2015 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Wursthorn
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Financial Benefit ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
Federal Employment ◽  
Employment Agency

AbstractHow to integrate asyl-seekers and refugees in labour market? In this article we are talking about strategies of the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit) to take advantage of the current immigration. Therefore, we present several examples of best practices and concrete steps, which supports refugees to get a job or a qualification. These examples are either solutions on a federal level or the result of local networking between our jobcenters and other important stakeholders.Furthermore, we want to provide transparency about all questions to refugees and labour market. We want to give informations to employers how to hire asyl-seekers and refugees and about the opportunities to get a financial benefit for employing these refugees. Finally, we want to show how the German labour market could benefit in general from the current immigration.

scholarly journals New administrative data on welfare dynamics in Germany: the Sample of Integrated Welfare Benefit Biographies (SIG)

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerstin Bruckmeier ◽  
Sandra Dummert ◽  
Philipp Grunau ◽  
Katrin Hohmeyer ◽  
Torsten Lietzmann
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Welfare Benefit ◽  
Welfare Receipt ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Employment Agency ◽  
Integrated Employment ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
Extensive Information ◽  
Household Members

Abstract The Sample of Integrated Welfare Benefit Biographies (SIG) is a new administrative longitudinal microdata set representative of recipients of Germany’s main welfare programme, the Unemployment Benefit II (UB II, Arbeitslosengeld II). The data set contains detailed longitudinal information on welfare receipt and labour market activities, and hence enables researchers to analyse the dynamics of benefit receipt, income and employment. A distinct feature of the SIG is that it provides information not only for individual benefit recipients but also for family members, including children and partners. This is possible because eligibility for UB II benefits depends on the household structure, and it is means-tested on household income. In addition to socio-demographic and regional information, the SIG contains extensive information on the employment biographies of benefit recipients and their household members from the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEB) of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). This allows researchers to examine the interaction between labour market participation and benefit receipt. The SIG is available to researchers at the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the IAB.

scholarly journals Cyclicality of labour market search: a new big data approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Hutter
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Seasonal Patterns ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Search Activity ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
Employment Agency ◽  
Search Intensity ◽  
Market Search ◽  
Employment Agencies

AbstractThis paper exploits big data on online activity from the job exchange of the German Federal Employment Agency and its internal placement-software to generate measures for search activity of employers and job seekers and—as a novel feature—for placement activity of employment agencies. In addition, the average search perimeter in the job seekers’ search profiles can be measured. The data are used to estimate the behaviour of the search and placement activities during the business and labour market cycle and their seasonal patterns. The results show that the search activities of firms and employment agencies are procyclical. By contrast, job seekers’ search intensity shows a countercyclical pattern, at least before the COVID-19 crisis.

scholarly journals Stakeholder views on young adults with intellectual disabilities as a workforce: A qualitative study on students’ performance in upper secondary education and their employment potential

2021 ◽  
pp. 174462952110264
Author(s):  
Kateryna Karhina ◽  
Jens Ineland ◽  
Lotta Vikström
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
Employment Agency ◽  
Work Transition ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Working Capability ◽  
Students With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Employment Potential

People with intellectual disabilities are the most disadvantaged group among all disability types when it comes to employment. In Sweden, special needs upper secondary schools prepare students with intellectual disabilities for the labour market using practice periods at workplaces. This study targets stakeholder involved in their school-to-work transition (i.e. teachers, employers, employment agency officials). The aim is to identify how they view: (1) the working capabilities of students during practice periods and (2) their employment potential. We base the analysis on interview data with the stakeholders using Grounded Theory. Our results identify three student types whose preparedness for the labour market differs considerably. One student type performs well during the practice period and represents a high potential to enter the workforce. The other two student types have the lower working capability and employment potential. Our study highlights stakeholders as resources to improve the labour market preparations of students with intellectual disabilities.

scholarly journals Germany’s Labour Market Policies

2019 ◽  
pp. 283-303
Author(s):  
Florian Spohr
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Economic Resilience ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
Employment Agency ◽  
Time Work ◽  
The Government ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Deep Recession

Germany has become one of the most competitive economies in the world. Only a decade and a half ago it was widely derided as stagnant, and ridden by political paralysis in reforming its labour market policies. However, in 2002, the discovery of manipulated statistics in the German Employment Agency opened a window of opportunity to break the stalemate in corporatist policymaking. In response, the government convened a commission to design labour market policy reforms: the Hartz Committee, named for its chair, Peter Hartz. Including experts, politicians, and members from interest groups in the commission enabled the government to promote the ‘Hartz Reforms’ on the basis of expertise and compromise. Their focus was on creating incentives for seeking employment. Job search assistance and monitoring gained importance, whereas ineffective job creation and early retirement schemes were abolished or reduced. These activating reforms successfully tackled structural unemployment and increased the overall employment rate. Their success in strengthening economic resilience was demonstrated during the 2008 economic crisis, when in combination with other measures such as the extension of short-time work, and controlled unit labour costs, they led Germany’s labour market through the deep recession.

Zur Reformdiskussion der Arbeitsmarktinstrumente für Jugendliche – Modifikation der Assistierten Ausbildung

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-20
Author(s):  
Ralph Conrads ◽  
Thomas Freiling
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
General State ◽  
Individual Approach ◽  
Employment Agency ◽  
Recommendations For Action ◽  
Social Code ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

Zusammenfassung Die Assistierte Ausbildung (AsA) gem. § 130 SGB III wurde im Mai 2015 bis maximal 2021 befristet eingeführt. Im Kontext der Neuordnung der Jugend­licheninstrumente der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) steht darüber hinaus die Weiterführung bzw. Entfristung der AsA auf dem Prüfstand. In einer wissenschaftlichen Begleitstudie der Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit ­(HdBA) wurde untersucht, inwieweit Anpassungen im Zuge der Neuordnung erforderlich sind. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich der individuelle Ansatz der AsA bewährt hat, aber Modifikationen zur besseren Zielerreichung notwendig sind. Unter Berücksichtigung der Erfahrungen zahlreicher Akteure werden maßnahmenbezogene Handlungsempfehlungen dargestellt und mit dem allgemeinen Diskussionsstand zusammengeführt. Abstract: On the Reform Discussion of Labour Market Instruments for Young People – Modification of Assisted Training Assisted training (Assistierte Ausbildung, AsA) according to § 130 Social Code III was introduced in May 2015 until 2021 at the latest. In the context of the reorganisation of the youth instruments of the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit, BA), the continuation or removal of the deadline for the AsA is also being put to the test. An accompanying scientific study by the University of Applied Labour Studies (Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, HdBA) examined the extent to which adjustments were necessary in the course of the reorganization. The results show that the individual approach of the AsA has proven its worth, but that modifications are necessary to achieve better results. Taking into account the experiences of numerous actors, action-related recommendations for action are presented and brought together with the general state of discussion.

scholarly journals The resistible rise of the temporary employment industry in France

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-144
Author(s):  
Paul Brook ◽  
Christina Purcell
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Temporary Employment ◽  
Regulatory Environment ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Employment Agency ◽  
Wide Scale ◽  
Market Pressures

This article is an historical account of the contested growth of the temporary employment agency sector in France. It utilises a variegated capitalism conceptual framework to explain the evolution of a distinctive temporary employment agency sector and regulatory environment under French politico-institutional conditions that was contingent upon global developments. The article charts the role of large agencies in constructing a market for agency labour despite wide-scale cultural, political and trade union opposition. In order to build legitimacy, agencies sought partners in the labour movement from the late 1960s onwards. By the late 1990s, the sector had grown significantly within a gradually more permissive regulatory framework, despite ongoing but fragmenting opposition. The article demonstrates that the growth of agency labour was not an inevitable outcome of global pressure for labour market deregulation. It also reveals how national regulatory institutions alone are not a sufficient bulwark against global labour market pressures.

The limitations of activation policies: unemployment at the end of working life

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 977-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTINA WUEBBEKE
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Unemployed People ◽  
Gainful Employment ◽  
Employment Agency ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
The One

ABSTRACTIn several European countries, older unemployed people, after reaching a certain age, are entitled to unemployment benefit payments without having to seek new employment. The coexistence of this exemption clause and of reforms aimed at containing early retirement in the respective countries reflects a conflict of political aims – on the one hand, between an efficient labour-market policy at a time of high unemployment, and on the other hand, the goal of the comprehensive activation and labour-market integration of older workers as a response to demographic change. This paper deals with the reasons for the transfer of older long-term unemployed people on to ‘facilitated benefits’ for labour-market withdrawal in Germany. The empirical analysis shows that low or no propensity to work was rarely the motive for leaving the labour market; in particular, those anticipating a low retirement income actually wanted to be re-employed. The vast majority gave three reasons for the decision to retire: an inability to cope with requirements of available jobs; a lack of job opportunities; and an absence of proper support from the public employment agency. Thus the withdrawal of older long-term unemployed people into pre-retirement cannot be attributed to a utility-maximising decision in favour of leisure and against gainful employment, but is the primary result of the scarce re-employment prospects.

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