Preparing the sample of integrated labour market biographies (SIAB) for scientific analysis: a guide

Preparing the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) for scientific analysis is a complicated and error-prone task. This paper elaborates on the steps necessary to prepare the SIAB and provides examples of how the preparation can be done. Among other topics covered, we show how to gen...

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Published inJournal for labour market research Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 1 - 14
Main Authors Dauth, Wolfgang, Eppelsheimer, Johann
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Heidelberg Springer 26.08.2020
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Subjects
Data preparation
Economic Policy
Economics
Economics and Finance
Event study
Human Resource Management
IAB
IEB
Labor Economics
Original Article
Population Economics
Regional/Spatial Science
SIAB
Sociology
Stata
SIAB
Data preparation
C55
IEB
J65
Stata
IAB
Event study
C81
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Summary:Preparing the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) for scientific analysis is a complicated and error-prone task. This paper elaborates on the steps necessary to prepare the SIAB and provides examples of how the preparation can be done. Among other topics covered, we show how to generate and merge additional variables, impute right-censored wages, deal with parallel employment episodes, and clean the dataset. Finally, we present a case study on the individual long-term effects of job loss from plant closure to demonstrate how our prepared version of the SIAB can be used to carry out an empirical analysis. The supplementary material of this paper contains exten-sively commented Stata do-files to replicate our data preparation and the subsequent analysis.
ISSN:2510-5027
2510-5019
2510-5027
DOI:10.1186/s12651-020-00275-9