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On the Definition of Unemployment and its Implementation in Register Data - The Case of GermanyThomas KruppeGovernment of the Federal Republic of Germany - Institute for Employment Research (IAB) Eva MüllerUniversity of Mannheim Laura WichertDeutsche Bundesbank - Economics Department; University of Konstanz - Department of Economics Ralf A. WilkeUniversity of York (UK); Center for European Economic Research (ZEW); Policy Studies Institute (PSI) 2007 ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 07-041 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.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 38 Keywords: unemployment duration, merged administrative individual data, Germany, Stata JEL Classification: C81, J64 working papers seriesDate posted: July 24, 2007 ; Last revised: August 26, 2008Suggested CitationContact Information
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