Competence Centre for Microdata-based Policy Advice
Tasks
The three areas of research at the IAW have common focuses, one of them being the microdata-based policy advice.
The IAW competence centre for microdata-based policy advice performs the following tasks:
- Advancement of the IAW’s advisory profile
- Participation in improving data infrastructure
- Enhancement of the IAW’s data- and methodological competence
- Communication
The mentioned tasks include the following activities:
Advancement of the IAW’s advisory profile
Development of project ideas for the utilisation of microdata for policy advice (e.g. pilot projects related to labour market policy, combination of advice and evaluation, advice for regional policy), presentation of the IAW’s advisory profile.
Participation in improving data infrastructure
Advancement of data infrastructure focussing on economic microdata, continuation of anonymisation projects in economic microdata, creation of methodological basics for anonymisation and for the work with anonymised data.
Enhancement of the IAW’s data- and methodological competence
Conduction of IAW own trainings, e.g. processes for panel data econometrics, work with certain data stocks for instance process data of the Federal Employment Office.
Communication
Public presentation of policy near project results, organisation of lectures and workshops with external researchers related to data and methodology.
Relevant Projects
- "infinitE" - An informational infrastructure for the ‚E-Science Age’ [more]
- Firms' Panel Data and Factual Anonymisation [more]
- Enviromental Protection Investments in Baden-Württemberg: An Economic Analysis (identification of research potencials of combining data on environmental investments with the industry statistics)
- Professional accompaniment and support of the conduction of the second program phase of the federal program “Perspective 50plus”
- Evaluation of the federal program “Kommunal Kombi”
- Integrated project MICRO-DYN ('Micro-Dynamics'): Growth, employment and competitiveness in the knowledge-based European economy [more]
- Importance and impact of company groups in Baden-Württemberg [more]
- Collective bargaining agreements with hardship or opening clauses and their consequences on wage flexibility and wage settlement [more]
- The impact of start-ups on the qualification, age and wage structure of the employment in Baden-Württemberg [more]
Events
- July 6, 2011: IAW-Seminar in Cooperation with the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Tübingen: "The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance Over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates over Twenty Years." (Stefan Bender [IAB Nürnberg])
- November 19 and 20, 2010: International Scientific Workshop at the IAW on Global and local firm linkages: Micro-level evidence on the structure and dynamics of enterprise activity. Keynote Speaker: Jens Südekum, University of Duisburg-Essen
The workshop program is available for download " Global and Local Firm Linkages". The workshop has been organized by the IAW in cooperation with the European Union´s 6th Framework Programme MicroDyn Project www.micro-dyn.eu.
- June 10, 2009: IAW seminar on: "Amtliche Firmendaten für Deutschland – neue Datenangebote der statistischen Landesämter für die Wirtschaftsforschung". (Ramona Voshage, Forschungsdatenzentrum der Statistischen Landesämter, Standort Berlin).
- October 13, 2008: IAW seminar on: “Employment effects of selected vocational training measures in Germany.” (Prof. Bernd Fitzenberger Ph.D., University of Fribourg)
- November 6 and 7, 2008: IAW-ESRI workshop: "Internationalisation of Production and Firm Performance"
- Continuously: Internal trainings “Introduction to Stata” and “Introduction to Econometrics”
Members