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.
Ongoing 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
- 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”
Direction
Members