DOI: 10.5164/IAB.GAV-ADIAB7519.de.en.v1
Summary
The Integrated Employment Biographies (IEB) of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) make it possible to track the employment status of a person exact to the day. They comprise periods of employment subject to social security in West Germany since 1975, among others. However, this information is available for East Germany only from 1992 onwards, which makes it hard to analyse the effects of German reunification on individual labour market trajectories with these data alone.
The GAV-ADIAB partially closes this gap by linking data of workers employed in the GDR in 1989 from the GDR’s “Data Fund of Societal Work Power” (Datenspeicher Gesellschaftliches Arbeitsvermögen; GAV) with their IEB data. It also adds the IEB data of a comparison group of workers employed in 1989 in West Germany.
The GAV-ADIAB thus enables the analysis of employment, unemployment, job mobility, and regional mobility around reunification, in particular. However, it is not well suited for comparing East and West Germany in more recent years.
The GAV-ADIAB contains a sample from the GAV data of the Bundesarchiv, with a selection of variables that were – as far as possible – harmonised with the IEB data. Should the research project require access to the original GAV data, i. e. without the linked administrative data of the IAB, then please contact the Bundesarchiv directly.
Dataset Descriptions and Frequencies
German
- DOI: 10.5164/IAB.FDZD.2213.de.v1
- FDZ-Datenreport 13/2022 (pdf)
- Auszählungen und Labels (zip)
English
- Frequencies and labels (zip)
Data Access
On-site Use included Remote Data Access. Further information on Applying for on-site use.
Test data
Test data in Stata are available in order to allow for the preparation of programs to facilitate remote data access as well as on-site use:
Test data for Stata: GAV-ADIAB7519v1_Testdaten_Stata.zip
Test data are random and therefore not for analysis!
Other Working Tools
We provide person and establishment fixed effects (AKM effects) for this data set. To access the effects in an existing project please write an email to iab.fdz@iab.de. Further information can be found in this FDZ-Methodenreport (pdf).
Further working tools as the overview on classifications of economic activities, a list of upper earnings limits and marginal part-time income thresholds and papers on working with the FDZ data can be found at key working tools of the FDZ.
Citation
Researchers working with the GAV-ADIAB are obligated to acknowledge the data base and its documentation within their publications, including the DOI, by using the following reference:
Data:
Zimmermann, Florian; Umkehrer, Matthias; Müller, Dana; Seth, Stefan (2022): "Data Fund of Societal Work Power linked with administrative data of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) (GAV-ADIAB) – Version 7519 v1". Research Data Centre of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). DOI: 10.5164/IAB.GAV-ADIAB7519.de.en.v1
The data access was provided via on-site use at the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and subsequently remote data access.
Data documentation:
Zimmermann, Florian; Umkehrer, Matthias; Ruf, Kevin; Müller, Dana; Seth, Stefan (2022): Datenspeicher Gesellschaftliches Arbeitsvermögen verknüpft mit administrativen Daten des IAB (GAV-ADIAB) 1975 - 2019. FDZ Datenreport, 13/2022 (de), Nürnberg. DOI:10.5164/IAB.FDZD.2213.de.v1
According to the FDZ Data Usage Agreement, any type of publication resulting from work with FDZ data must be reported to the FDZ by e-mail to iab.fdz@iab.de at the latest one month after publication. The notification must include an electronic version of the printed version or, after publication, a reprint or a copy of the publication free of charge.
Data Versions
>> Further information on other versions of the GAV-ADIAB datasets.