Custom Shaped Administrative Data for the Analysis of Labor Markets (CADAL)

行政数据已被证明是实证劳动经济学，社会学或统计学研究的丰富而强大的资源，并使研究人员能够在高排名的学术期刊上发表论文。除其他外，行政数据利用率高的一个原因是，它们可以比较容易地根据研究人员的需要进行调整。因此，许多在顶级领先期刊上发表的文章都是基于个性化或定制的管理数据，这些数据完全符合研究人员的识别策略。德国联邦就业局（Bundesagentur für Arbeit，BA）在就业研究所（IAB）的研究数据中心（FDZ）是向德国科学界提供关于个人/家庭或企业一级的行政劳动力市场数据的最重要供应商。多年来，FDZ为许多项目提供了数据，从而为《经济学季刊》和《美国经济评论》等知名期刊的顶级出版物提供了基础。例如，Dustmann et.等人2009，Schmieder等人2012，Biewen等人2013或Card等人2013。对于DFG优先项目“全球化世界中的德国劳动力市场：贸易，技术和人口的挑战”（SPP 1764），FDZ将继续为研究人员提供高质量的管理数据，并将为DFG优先项目的项目提供定制的数据，专门设计用于满足特定项目的基本研究问题。随着研究经验的积累，数据生产得到改善，数据提供者以最佳方式提供/准备行政数据需要研究人员与数据提供者之间密切沟通。为了促进这种富有成效的交流，FDZ将与DFG优先项目的研究人员以及众多国际研究人员就数据开发和实质性研究问题进行合作。我们的想法是创建数据，这些数据不仅是DFG优先计划项目的资源，而且还将为整个科学界带来附加值。因此，FDZ的目标是用德语和英语记录所有这些新生成的数据，并将其公开。FDZ，研究人员和国际专家在DFG优先计划中的独特互动不仅将确保创造新的和创新的数据。它将为前沿研究奠定基础，可以在DFG优先计划内外的国际知名度和顶级出版物方面进行衡量。

Administrative data have proven to be a rich and powerful resource for research in empirical labor economics, sociology or statistics and enables researchers to publish papers in highly ranked academic journals. Among others, one reason for the high utilization of administrative data is that they can comparatively easy be shaped according to the researchers needs. As a consequence, many of the publications in top leading journals is based on individualized or custom-shaped administrative data which fits perfectly the identification strategies of the researchers. The Research Data Center (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit, BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) is the most important supplier of administrative labor market data on the level of individuals/households or establishments to the scientific community in Germany. Over the years, FDZ supplied numerous projects with data and thus provided the basis for top-level publications in prestigious journals like the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review. Examples are the papers by Dustmann et. al. 2009, Schmieder et al. 2012, Biewen et al. 2013 or Card et al. 2013. For the DFG Priority Program The German Labour Market in a Globalised World: Challenges through Trade, Technology, and Demographics (SPP 1764), FDZ will continue to supply high quality administrative data to researchers and will provide projects of this DFG Priority Program with custom shaped data, specifically designed to suit the underlying research questions of the specific projects. Data production improves with research experience and the optimal provision/preparation of administrative data by the data provider requires a close communication between researchers and the data provider. In order to foster this productive exchange, FDZ will collaborate with researchers of this DFG Priority Program and numerous international researchers on data development and on substantive research questions. The idea is to create data that are not only a resource for the projects of this DFG Priority Program but which will also represent an added value to the scientific community in general. Hence, FDZ aims to document all of these newly generated data both in German and English and to make them publicly available. The unique interaction between FDZ, researchers and international experts in this DFG Priority Program will not only ensure the creation of new and innovative data. It will lay the basis for cutting-edge research may be measured in terms of international visibility and top-level publications within this DFG Priority Program and beyond.