Institute for Employment Research

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The Institute for Employment Research was housed in this building in Weddigenstrasse until August 2016 (the facade was painted by Klaus Hopf )

The Institute for Employment Research ( IAB ) in Nuremberg was founded in 1967 as a research facility of the Federal Employment Agency . It researches the labor market on the basis of two statutory mandates that are regulated for the area of ​​unemployment insurance in SGB III and for basic security for job seekers in SGB II. The IAB makes its research results available to the public and provides independent advice on policy and practice.

So that labor market processes can be illuminated from many perspectives, diverse aspects can be analyzed and differentiated problem solutions can be developed, the IAB was designed to be multidisciplinary at an early stage. Economists, sociologists, business economists, mathematicians and political scientists are currently working at the institute in order to cover the broad spectrum of research fields relating to the labor market.

The research focuses on the areas of labor market policy, regional and international labor markets, the overall economy and institutions, companies, qualifications and professions, life opportunities and social inequality as well as methods and data for external partners from science. In addition, there are overarching working groups on professions, further training, migration and integration, gender research, work in the digitized world, data quality, qualitative methods, quality of employment, minimum wages and long-term benefit receipt.

Much of this is based on extensive own surveys and process data from the Federal Employment Agency, which are processed for research purposes by the IAB, but are nevertheless available to the entire scientific community. The organizational proximity to the Federal Employment Agency and the connection to the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs ensure that the results of this research can flow directly into political decisions. To promote the next generation of academics, the IAB has set up a graduate program together with the Economics Department of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In the IAB Establishment Panel , representative establishments from all sectors and size classes are surveyed annually.

Bernd Fitzenberger has headed the institute since September 2019 . The IAB is a member of the working group of departmental research institutions .

The regional office at the IAB, which is part of the research focus "Regional and international labor markets", coordinates the work of the regional research network (RFN) in the regional IAB research centers at the ten regional directorates of the BA: IAB-Nord ( Kiel ), IAB-Niedersachsen-Bremen ( Hanover ) , IAB-Berlin-Brandenburg ( Berlin ), IAB-North Rhine-Westphalia ( Düsseldorf ), IAB-Hessen ( Frankfurt am Main ), IAB-Saxony-Anhalt-Thuringia ( Halle (Saale) ), IAB-Saxony ( Chemnitz ), IAB -Rhineland-Palatinate-Saarland ( Saarbrücken ), IAB-Bavaria ( Nuremberg ), IAB-Baden-Württemberg ( Stuttgart ).

The Research Data Center (FDZ) of the BA at the IAB belongs to the focus on “Methods and Data”. The central aim of the FDZ is to systematically and comprehensively enable access to data on the labor market for external researchers in compliance with legal norms - especially data protection - by means of transparent access regulations. The data can only be used if questions in the area of ​​social insurance are dealt with in the context of non-commercial research projects.

The Competence Center Empirical Methods (KEM), which is also part of the “Methods and Data” focus, develops and adapts statistical and econometric methods in order to improve the quality of the mass data of the Federal Employment Agency and its own surveys and to use them more efficiently.

Directors of the IAB

The management of the institute is supported by a scientific advisory board.

Web links

Commons : Institute for Employment Research  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 40 years IAB, p. 25 (PDF; 978 kB)

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