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Data on establishments:
Development of employment, business policy and development, investments, in-house innovations, government subsidies, personnel structure, vocational training and apprenticeship places, recruitments and dismissals, personnel search, wages, working hours, training programmes, general company information
Main focus of each wave:
1994: Contact with the employment agency
1997: Business start-ups; recruitment of skilled labour
1998: Investments abroad
1999: Progressive retirement and pre-retirement; share of turnover in environmentally protective goods; revision of the DM 630 job regulation
2000: Skilled worker demand; elderly employees; financial incentives for employees
2001: Computer and Internet equipment; staff shares and profit-sharing
2002: Elderly employees; health protection; equal opportunities; contact with the employment agency
2003: Operational flexibility
2004: Personnel structure (senior management), working hours
2005: Environmentally protective goods, personnel recruitment
2006: Job security and locational security of industries
Data on individuals (sample from the Employee and Benefit Recipient History of the IAB):
Socio-demographic characteristics:
Individual ID, gender, year of birth, nationality (German/ foreigner, for West Germany only), school education and professional qualifications
Employment-related characteristics:
start and end date of employment, type of employment (especially differentiation between employment covered by social security and marginal employment), gross earnings subject to social security, profession, occupational status (including full or part-time employment), reason for employment notification (e.g. end of or break in employment)
Benefit-related characteristics:
Start and end date of benefit receipt period, type of benefit (unemployment benefit, unemployment assistance or maintenance allowance), reason for termination of benefit payment
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