Accessing German Social Security Data at Princeton University

Princeton UniversityMarch 26, 2015

Joerg Heining

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FDZ: Research Data Center of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA)

Located at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg, Germany

Established in 2004

Facilitates access to micro data of BA and IAB for purposes of academic research

Since 2011: Remote access centers in Germany and the US

FDZ of BA at IAB

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Data Available at FDZ

Micro labor market data on individuals/households and establishments

Surveys

Data available at the FDZ

Administrative Data

Social Security

Notifications

Process-generated data of the

BA

External/

Open

Data

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Notification Procedure to the Social Security Institutions

Employers are required by law to notify the social security institutions on:

‐ Every employee and marginal worker covered by the social security system

‐ No information on civil servants, freelancers or self-employed

‐ At the beginning or end of employment, employment interruption, change of health insurance

‐ At least once a year

‐ Social security number and establishment number

Purpose of data collection:

‐ Calculation of pension payments, unemployment benefits, and other benefits

‐ Statistical purposes

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Notification Procedure to the Social Security Institutions

Social Security Number Establishment Number Last Name First Name Address Reason for Notification Times of Employment (on a daily

basis) Nationality School Education Vocational Training Type of Employment Wages Occupation (since 2011: new

classification) Industry code

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Process-Generated Data of BA

Data from operative processes of BA:

‐ Information on earnings replacement/unemployment benefit receipt

‐ Participation in labor market programs

‐ Registered job search

Periods (daily exact information) and amounts on the individual level

Social security number or BA customer ID, and several other variables

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The Integrated Employment Biographies (IEB)Database

IAB merges social security records and BA data (complete) individual employment biographies

Integrated Employment Biographies (IEB) database

Employment history covered by social security system (since 1975)

Unemployment benefit receipt (since 1975, SGB II since 2005)

Registered job search (since 2000)

Participation in labor market programs (since 2000)

Current version: Information on 86.090.505 individuals

apprenticeship training

retirement/entry to the pension system

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Data Available at FDZ - Overview

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Sample of Integrated Labor Market Biographies (SIAB)

Approximately 2% random sample drawn from the IEB database

May be linked to the Establishment History Panel data (BHP)

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Sample of Integrated Labor Market Biographies (SIAB)

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Establishment History Panel (BHP)

Cross sectional dataset on all establishments in Germany with

‐ at least one employee liable to social security (until 1998)

‐ since 1999 also with at least one marginal worker

Aggregations of the individual admin data by establishment ids

Current version 1975-2010

50% random sample or random sample stratified by 8 establishment sizes

In the samples: 650.000 to 1.3 million establishments per year

Employment structure of the establishment broken down by

‐ Type of employment, educational attainment, age, occupation, nationality, wage, etc.

‐ In- and out-flows, indicator on establishment entries and exits

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Linked-Employer-Employee Data (LIAB)

Worker information from the IEB database are linked to the IAB Establishment Panel data

IAB Establishment Panel:

‐ Annual establishment survey

‐ West-Germany since 1993, East-Germany 1996

Two data models of the LIAB data are available:

‐ Cross-sectional model: all observations from the IAB Establishment Panel combined with administrative worker data from IEB database on June 30

(linked establishments: 4,188 – 14,981 per year, workers: 1,629,542 – 2,584,520 per year)

‐ Longitudinal model: selection of establishments from the IAB Establishment Panel combined with worker biographies from the IEB database

(linked establishments: 2,702 – 11,117 per year, workers: 1,090,728 – 1,536,665 per year)

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LIAB Longitudinal Model (LIAB LM9310)

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Biographical data of selected insurance agencies in Germany (BASiD)

1% sample of the population of the German Pension insurance related to the sample of insured persons and their insurance accounts 2007 (Versichertenkontenstichprobe - VSKT)

‐ Employment liable to social security (in the data since 1951)

‐ Marginal employment (in the data since 1999)

‐ Self-employment with voluntary pension insurance

‐ Receipt of unemployment benefits according to the German Social Code Book III (in the data since 1975) or German Social Code Book II (in the data since 2005)

Information from the IEB database are added:

‐ times of job search registered by BA (in the data since 2000)

‐ (planned) participation in labor market programs

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Linked Personel Panel (LPP)

Joint project with University of Cologne and Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), funded by Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS)

Survey on HR work, corporate culture and management instruments in German establishments

‐ Which HR management instruments are used by establishments?

‐ Is there an impact of certain HR management strategies on firm performance?

‐ Is there an impact of certain HR management strategies on employees’ attitudes, satisfaction, health status, commitment etc.?

First wave 2012/2013 of the LPP data contains of

‐ Survey of 1,219 establishments from IAB Establishment Panel survey in 2011 and 2012

‐ Survey of more than 7,500 employees in the selected establishments

LPP will be linked to the IEB database

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IAB-SOEP Migration Sample (IAB-SOEP MIG)

Household survey conducted by IAB and German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin

First wave 2013: direct interviews with 4964 persons in 2723 households

Individual and household questionnaire

Survey addresses various aspects of immigration including:

‐ Migration history

‐ Education history

‐ Employment history

‐ Labor market background

Combination of IAB-SOEP MIG with IEB data will be published in the near future

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New Data Developments (selection)

Patent data

Geocoded data

Commercial business data (Bureau van Dijk, BvD): Combined BvD-IEB data

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Patent Data

Data from the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) linked to data from the IEB database

‐ Name and address of inventors for all registered patents in 2002

‐ 30,000 inventors are linked to admin data

‐ Dorner/Bender/Harhoff/Hoisl: Patterns and Determinants of Inventor Mobility – Evidence from the Employment Biographies of Inventors in Germany

German inventors from 1999-2012

‐ Record linkage more or less completed

Patents from the former East Germany

‐ Around 75,000 inventors from the former GDR can be found afterwards in the IEB database

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Geocoded Data

Geocoded address material (GAB) from Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy

Combined with employment spells from the IEB database for 2007 - 2009

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Geocoded Data

Low wage = Wage is below 2/3 of the average wage in Berlin.

Low wage = around 53 Euro per day.

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Combined BvD – IEB Data

Bureau van Dijk (BvD): company and individual information (sample period: 1980-2014)

Orbis database has two parts: companies and managers

Content of BvD

‐ quarterly financial data for stock traded firms

‐ yearly financial data for all firms

‐ individual manager information

‐ additional information: industry sectors, global and domestic ultimate owners, legal form, insolvent/active/listed/delisted, etc.

Record linkage for firms and establishments via name and legal form

Record linkage for individual data via first and last name, birth date, address

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Publications with FDZ Data

‐ American Economic Review

‐ The Quarterly Journal of Economics

‐ The Review of Economics and Statistics

‐ European Economic Review

‐ Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

‐ The Scandinavian Journal of Economics

‐ Journal of Labor Economics

‐ Journal of Urban Economics

‐ Labor Economics

‐ Journal of Population Economics

‐ and many more

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Access Modes

Off-Site Access On-Site Access

Download(Scientific Use File)

Remote Execution Visit to FDZ or Remote Access Centers

Factually anonymized data

Weakly anonymized data

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Remote Access Centers of FDZ

New center at Princeton University!!!

Coming soon: UK Data Archive, Colchester UK and University of California Los Angeles

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Easy, Quick and Cheap Access

Easy

‐ Non-technical project proposal

‐ Approval by FDZ

‐ Use agreement with the institution of the researcher

‐ IRB approval from Princeton University

Quick

‐ (Estimated) Time until user/institution receives agreement:

‐ 2 to 4 weeks

Cheap

‐ Access to standard FDZ data is free of charge

‐ No lab fees

‐ No restrictions on hours/visits of on-site use facilities or runs of remote executions

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Customized FDZ Data

Regular FDZ data are a rich resource but may not always fit the requirements of the specific project

Possibility for customized FDZ data products :

‐ Specifically shaped administrative data

‐ Administrative data combined with external data German Record

Linkage Center at FDZ

‐ Subject to charge

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Other Services Provided by the FDZ

Software available: Stata, R, SAS, MatLab

Disclosure review service

Bilingual documentation (German and English, including variable and value labels)

Advisory service and assistance

Permanent IAB staff member based in Ann Arbor

www.iab.de

Research Data Center (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB)

Regensburger Straße 10090487 NurembergGermany+49-(0)911-179-1752+49-(0)911-179-1728iab.fdz@iab.de

http://fdz.iab.de/en.aspx

Joerg Heiningjoerg.heining@iab.de+49-(0)911-179-5392

Thank you!

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Panel ‘Labor Market and Social Security’ (PASS)

Annual household survey started in 2006/2007: Labor market and poverty situation in Germany

Situation of recipients of benefits in accordance with the German Social Code Book II (recipients of Unemployment Benefit II (“Hartz IV”))

Two random samples from two partial populations:

‐ Persons and households in receipt of Unemployment Benefit II

‐ All persons and households registered as residents of Germany

7 waves are available

Combined PASS-IEB data (Pass-ADIAB) became available recently

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Working and Learning in a Changing World (ALWA)

Survey which contains information about more than 10.400 life histories

Allows longitudinal analysis of

‐ Schooling and training decisions

‐ Labor market re-entries and labor market behavior

‐ Processes of family formation

‐ Regional mobility

Competence tests (for half of the individuals)

Combined data: ALWA – administrative data (ALWA-ADIAB)

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LPP- Sampling

IAB-Establishment Panel data since 1993

LPP-Establishment Survey 2012/131,219 Establishments

LPP-Employee Survey 2012/20137,508 Employees

Linked Personnel Panel (LPP)

Establishments in the private

sector 2011

Employees from 861 Betrieben

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Establishment History Panel (BHP)

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Geocoded Data

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Panel “WeLL” – Employee Survey for the Project “Further Training as a Part of Lifelong Learning”

Survey about further vocational training from employers and employees

Four waves: 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010

Specifically designed for analyzing in-firm further training activities

Not representative for German establishments and employees

Further training activities, socio-demographic characteristics and information about income, household, job satisfaction and expectations regarding the future , some establishment information

WeLL-ADIAB: Combined WeLL-IEB data

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Data from the Operative Systems of BA

Prior to 2005

Unemployment Benefits (ALG)

Social Assistance

Expiration Date of ALG

Benefit Recipient History File (LeH)

Unemployment Benefits (ALH)

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Data from the Operative Systems of BA

After 2005

Benefit Recipient History File (LeH)

Unemployment Benefits I (ALG)

Unemployment Benefits II (ALG II)

Expiration Date of ALG

The Unemployment Benefit II Recipient Histories Files (LHG/XLHG)

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Access to a Unique Data Resource for Cutting Edge Research

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