Current surveys
Service processes on the labour market
Over the last years, the quality of service processes has been central for the success of labour market reforms: the services rendered are the interface between the laws, and the administration thereof, and the persons affected by unemployment and/or in need of help. The way this interface is handled not only determines the level of success of the legal regulations in regard to their goal but also the degree to which the laws meet with acceptance.
In order to assess the significance of this, IAB has contracted out a fairly large survey on service processes. Within the framework of the project and on a voluntary basis, roughly 150 unemployed persons from both legal spheres will be observed during their visits to employment offices and the institutions providing Basic Income Support. In addition to this, interviews will be conducted with those affected and with the relevant professional staff. The fieldwork for the project is taking place between November 2008 and the end of 2009.
Third wave (Dritte Welle) of business start-ups
In the period from the middle of May 2008 to probably the middle of July 2008, a cohort of persons will be surveyed for the third time by telephone: previously unemployed, these persons set up businesses of their own in 2003 with the help of either a bridging allowance or business start-up subsidy (Ich-AG). This longitudinal study, with an economically matched control group, is intended to provide information about what the participants are doing now and how sustainable their business set-ups are. Further important aspects are the jobs additionally created; the way in which the new entrepreneurs are socially insured; the level of income achieved; and work satisfaction. The survey is being carried out by infas, the Institute for Applied Social Sciences in Bonn, on behalf of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg.
Survey of those undergoing rehabilitation
IAB conducted a telephone survey under the study title "Paths into and out of vocational rehabilitation" of 4,000 persons who had completed rehabilitation measures in 2006. There will be a repeat of this survey in the summer of 2008 with the same people. Participation in the survey is voluntary and the data collected is evaluated anonymously. The survey will be carried out by the infas Institute for Applied Social Sciences, Bonn. Together with a longitudinal dimension relating to the course of schooling/training and one's previous work experience, the survey contains various further dimensions of analysis. Among these are: the interaction that has taken place with the work community/employment agency; experiences made with the measures themselves; health; social integration, and continuation once the measure has ended.
Panel Study "The Labour Market and Social Security" (PASS)
The purpose of the Panel Study "Labour Market and Social Security" (Panel Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung) carried out by the IAB is to provide a new database which will allow social processes and the non-intended side-effects of labour market reforms to be assessed empirically. The nationwide survey is repeated annually and covers approximately 12,000 households that are interviewed in a mixed mode survey conducted partially by telephone and partially in person.
Job Vacancy Survey: Availability of jobs and job-filling processes at the level of the economy as a whole – An IAB reporting system based on surveys of employers
This written survey of companies and administrations is being conducted in order to learn more about the employment situation at individual establishments along with the number and structure of positions currently open. In addition to this, the survey is also being used to collect information on how the new labour market reforms are viewed by individual establishments.
IAB Establishment Panel
Within the framework of the IAB Establishment Panel, close to 16,000 establishments from all branches of the economy and of all sizes are surveyed annually and nationwide from the end of June until October. The survey is carried out orally by way of personal interviews conducted by TNS Infratest Sozialforschung, Munich, on behalf of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). This representative survey of employers covers a wide range of questions on a great many topics related to employment policy. The standard annual programme of questions is complemented by topics of current interest. The IAB Establishment Panel has been in existence in western Germany since 1993 and in the east since 1996. As a comprehensive longitudinal data set, it forms the basis for research into the demand side of the labour market.
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