Stefan Bender

Establishment-level wage effects of entering motherhood (2009)

Beblo, Miriam, Bender, Stefan, Wolf, Elke

We analyse the wage effects following employment breaks of women who enter motherhood using a novel matching approach where mothers’ wages upon return to work are compared to those of their female...

University and The Empirical Evaluation of Labour Market Programmes Conference (2008)

Marianne Simonsen, Stefan Bender, Martin Browning, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Michael Lechner, Helena S. Nielsen, ...

Government Studies We estimate the effect of motherhood on wages using matching. We distinguish between net and direct effects. The net effect includes the total wage costs, whereas the direct...

Erfolgreiche Weiterbildung: Wenn die Sperre nicht mehr wirkt (2005)

Stefan Bender, Michael Lechner, Ruth Miquel, Conny Wunsch

Der Beitrag berichtet über eine empirische Analyse einer Version der IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe, die um Zeiten der Fortbildung und Umschulung angereichert wurde. Die betrachteten Personen hatten...

Functional MRI BOLD response to Tower of London performance of first-episode schizophrenia patients using cortical pattern matching (2005)

Rasser, Paul E., Johnston, Patrick, Lagopoulos, Jim, Ward, Philip B., Schall, Ulrich, Thienel, Renate, ...

Due to its three-dimensional folding pattern, the human neocortex poses a challenge for accurate co-registration of grouped functional brain imaging data. The present study addressed this problem by...

Functional MRI BOLD response to Tower of London performance of first-episode schizophrenia patients using cortical pattern matching (2005)

Rasser, P. E., Johnston, Patrick, Lagopoulos, Jim, Ward, P. B., Schall, Ulrich, Thienel, Renate, ...

Due to its three-dimensional folding pattern, the human neocortex poses a challenge for accurate co-registration of grouped functional brain imaging data. The present study addressed this problem by...

Functional MRI BOLD response to Tower of London performance of first-episode schizophrenia patients using cortical pattern matching (2005)

Rasser, Paul E., Johnston, Patrick, Lagopoulos, Jim, Ward, Philip B., Schall, Ulrich, Thienel, Renate, ...

Due to its three-dimensional folding pattern, the human neocortex poses a challenge for accurate co-registration of grouped functional brain imaging data. The present study addressed this problem by...

Functional MRI BOLD response to Tower of London performance of first-episode schizophrenia patients using cortical pattern matching (2005)

Rasser, P. E., Johnston, Patrick, Lagopoulos, Jim, Ward, P. B., Schall, Ulrich, Thienel, Renate, ...

Due to its three-dimensional folding pattern, the human neocortex poses a challenge for accurate co-registration of grouped functional brain imaging data. The present study addressed this problem by...

Untersuchungen zum Betriebsverhalten temperaturregelbarer OFW-Gassensoren / (2004)

Bender, Stefan.

Aachen, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 2004 (Nicht für den Austausch).

A toolbox for record linkage (2004)

Rainer Schnell, Tobias Bachteler, Stefan Bender

Abstract: We developed a record-linkage toolbox in order to compare the performance of various string-similarity measures for German surnames. This ”Matching Tool-Box ” (MTB) is made up by...

Untersuchungen zum Betriebsverhalten temperaturregelbarer OFW – Gassensoren (2004)

Bender, Stefan

Üblicherweise werden Oberflächenwellen-Gassensoren (OFW) auf der Basis piezoelektrischer Kristalle wie Siliziumdioxid oder Lithiumniobat in einer teilweise aufwendigen Aufbau- und...

Women, work, and motherhood: changing employment penalties for motherhood in West Germany after 1945 - a comparative analysis of cohorts born in 1934-1971 (2003)

Bender, Stefan, Kohlmann, Annette, Lang, Stefan

This paper deals with the effects of entry into motherhood on women's employment dynamics. Our analysis is based on the complete lifetime working- and income histories of a 1% sample of all persons...

A case for caution in assessing the antibiotic activity of extracts of culinary-medicinal shiitake mushroom [Lentinus edodes (Berk.) Singer] (Agaricomycetideae) (2003)

Backhaus, Jurgen, Baker, Warren L., Bender, Stefan, Christie, Gregor B., Cross, Reginald F., Dumitrache-Anghel, Cristina N., ...

Antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus was detected when edible and medicinal mushroom Lentinus edodes was grown in malt extract broth. The broth was subjected to anion-exchange...

A case for caution in assessing the antibiotic activity of extracts of culinary-medicinal shiitake mushroom [Lentinus edodes (Berk.) Singer] (Agaricomycetideae) (2003)

Backhaus, Jurgen, Baker, Warren L., Bender, Stefan, Christie, Gregor B., Cross, Reginald F., Dumitrache-Anghel, Cristina N., ...

Antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus was detected when edible and medicinal mushroom Lentinus edodes was grown in malt extract broth. The broth was subjected to anion-exchange...

A case for caution in assessing the antibiotic activity of extracts of culinary-medicinal shiitake mushroom [Lentinus edodes (Berk.) Singer] (Agaricomycetideae) (2003)

Backhaus, Jurgen, Baker, Warren L., Bender, Stefan, Christie, Gregor B., Cross, Reginald F., Dumitrache-Anghel, Cristina N., ...

Antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus was detected when edible and medicinal mushroom Lentinus edodes was grown in malt extract broth. The broth was subjected to anion-exchange...

Functional brain maps of Tower of London performance: a positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging study (2003)

Schall, Ulrich, Johnston, Patrick, Lagopoulos, Jim, Jüptner, Markus, Jentzen, Walter, Thienel, Renate, ...

Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) and blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) contrasts represent different physiological measures of brain activation. The present study aimed to compare two...

A case for caution in assessing the antibiotic activity of extracts of culinary-medicinal shiitake mushroom [Lentinus edodes (Berk.) Singer] (Agaricomycetideae) (2003)

Backhaus, Jurgen, Baker, Warren L., Bender, Stefan, Christie, Gregor B., Cross, Reginald F., Dumitrache-Anghel, Cristina N., ...

Antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus was detected when edible and medicinal mushroom Lentinus edodes was grown in malt extract broth. The broth was subjected to anion-exchange...

Women, Work, and Motherhood: Changing Employment Penalties for Motherhood in West Germany after 1945 - A Comparative Analysis of Cohorts Born in 1934-1971 (2003)

Stefan Bender, A Comparative, Analysis Cohorts Born

This paper deals with the effects of entry into motherhood on women's employment dynamics. Our analysis is based on the complete lifetime working- and income histories of a 1% sample of all...

Functional brain maps of Tower of London performance: a positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging study (2003)

Schall, Ulrich, Johnston, Patrick, Lagopoulos, Jim, Juptner, Markus, Jentzen, Walter, Thienel, Renate, ...

Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) and blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) contrasts represent different physiological measures of brain activation. The present study aimed to compare two...

Functional brain maps of Tower of London performance: a positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging study (2003)

Schall, Ulrich, Johnston, Patrick, Lagopoulos, Jim, Jüptner, Markus, Jentzen, Walter, Thienel, Renate, ...

Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) and blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) contrasts represent different physiological measures of brain activation. The present study aimed to compare two...

A case for caution in assessing the antibiotic activity of extracts of culinary-medicinal shiitake mushroom [Lentinus edodes (Berk.) Singer] (Agaricomycetideae) (2003)

Backhaus, Jurgen, Baker, Warren L., Bender, Stefan, Christie, Gregor B., Cross, Reginald F., Dumitrache-Anghel, Cristina N., ...

Antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus was detected when edible and medicinal mushroom Lentinus edodes was grown in malt extract broth. The broth was subjected to anion-exchange...

Functional brain maps of Tower of London performance: a positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging study (2003)

Schall, Ulrich, Johnston, Patrick, Lagopoulos, Jim, Juptner, Markus, Jentzen, Walter, Thienel, Renate, ...

Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) and blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) contrasts represent different physiological measures of brain activation. The present study aimed to compare two...

Dismissal protection and worker flows in small establishments

Bauer, Thomas K., Bender, Stefan, Bonin, Holger

"Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small...

The linked employer-employee dataset of the IAB (LIAB)

Alda, Holger, Bender, Stefan, Gartner, Hermann

"The linked employer-employee dataset of the IAB (LIAB) is created by matching the data of the IAB establishment panel and the process-produced data of the Federal Employment Services (in particular...

The wage effects of entering motherhood : a within-firm matching approach

Beblo, Miriam, Bender, Stefan, Wolf, Elke

We analyze the wage effects of employment breaks of women entering motherhood using a novel within-firm matching approach where mothers’ wages upon return to the job are compared with those of...

Do initial conditions persist between firms? : an analysis of firm-entry cohort effects and job losers using matched employer-employee data

Wachter, Till Von, Bender, Stefan

"Influential studies have suggested that initial conditions can have persistent effects on workers' careers within firms. It is a longstanding question among economists whether such lasting wage...

Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

THOMAS K. BAUER, STEFAN BENDER, HOLGER BONIN

Based on a large employer-employee matched data-set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small...

Arbeitslosigkeit von ausländischen Arbeitnehmern : ein Versuch, nationalitätenspezifische Arbeitslosenquoten zu erklären

Bender, Stefan, Karr, Werner

"Es ist weithin bekannt, daß die ausländische Erwerbsbevölkerung hierzulande eine deutlich höhere Arbeitslosenquote hat als die deutsche Erwerbsbevölkerung. Viel weniger bekannt ist, daß auch...

Arbeitslosigkeit in ostdeutschen Familien : der Einfluß des Familienkontexts auf das individuelle Arbeitslosigkeitsrisiko

Beckmann, Petra, Bender, Stefan

Grundlage der empirischen Analysen war eine Ende 1991 durchgeführte persönliche Befragung von 9695 repräsentativ ausgewählten ostdeutschen Frauen und Männern im Alter zwischen 15 und 60 Jahren....

Regionale Unterschiede in der Frauenerwerbstätigkeit : eine Typisierung westdeutscher Arbeitsmarktregionen

Bender, Stefan, Hirschenauer, Franziska

"Ziel des Beitrags ist es, einige wesentliche Unterschiede in den regionalen Erwerbsmöglichkeiten von Frauen herauszuarbeiten. In einem primär deskriptiven Ansatz werden dazu die 167 westdeutschen...

Berufliche Mobilität zur Anpassung struktureller Diskrepanzen am Arbeitsmarkt

Velling, Johannes, Bender, Stefan

Auf der Basis eines theoretischen Modells zur Bestimmung der wichtigsten Determinanten wurde die berufliche Mobilität am westdeutschen Arbeitsmarkt empirisch untersucht. Die Analyse wurde mit Daten...

Die IAB-Beschäftigtenstrichprobe als scientific use file

Bender, Stefan, Hilzendegen, Jürgen

"Die seit 1973 aufgebaute Beschäftigtenstatistik ist neben der Volks- und Berufszählung, dem Mikrozensus und der Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS) eine der für die Sozialforschung...

Die Analyse der Stabilität von Beschäftigungsverhältnissen bei Berufsanfängern (Analysis of the stability of employment relationships for new entrants to the labour market)

Bellmann, Lutz, Bender, Stefan

"Using the data of the IAB employment sample, the inter-company labour mobility for the 1979 and 1985 cohorts of new entrants to the labour market was analysed. The matters studied were the...

Was tun Lehrlinge nach ihrer Ausbildung? : eine Analyse mit dem Linked Employer-Employee-Datensatz des IAB (What do apprentices do after their training? : an analysis using the IAB Linked Employer-Employee dataset)

Schwerdt, Wolfgang, Bender, Stefan

"The transition of western German apprentices at the end of their training is examined on the basis of a combined multiple choice and selection model. It models simultaneously a number of decisions...

The wage effects of entering motherhood : a within-firm matching approach

Beblo, Miriam, Bender, Stefan, Wolf, Elke

"We analyze the wage effects of employment breaks of women entering motherhood using a novel within-firm matching approach where mothers' wages upon return to the job are compared with those of their...

Job Tenure of Two Cohorts of Young German Men 1979 - 1990: An analysis of the (West-)German Employment Statistic Register Sample concerning multivariate failure times and unobserved heterogeneity

Bellmann, Lutz, Bender, Stefan, Hornsteiner, Ulrich

Based on theoretical models of job mobility this paper provides an empirical analysis of job durations in West Germany using information from two cohorts of new entrants to the labor force. We adopt...

Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas K., Bender, Stefan, Bonin, Holger

Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small...

Women, work, and motherhood: changing employment penalties for motherhood in West Germany after 1945 - a comparative analysis of cohorts born in 1934-1971

Stefan Bender, Annette Kohlmann, Stefan Lang

This paper deals with the effects of entry into motherhood on women’s employment dynamics. Our analysis is based on the complete lifetime working- and income histories of a 1% sample of all persons...

KombiFiD – Kombinierte Firmendaten für Deutschland

Stefan Bender, Joachim Wagner, Markus Zwick

Bei den Statistischen Ämtern des Bundes und der Länder und im Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit werden zahlreiche Daten für Unternehmen bzw. Betriebe...

In the Right Place at the Wrong Time: The Role of Firms and Luck in Young Workers

Till Von Wachter, Stefan Bender

We examine administrative data on young German workers and their employers to study the long-term effects of an early career job loss. To account for nonrandom sorting of workers into firms with...

Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Thomas Bauer, Stefan Bender, Holger Bonin

Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small...

A new approach for disclosure control in the IAB Establishment Panel : multiple imputation for a better data access

Drechsler, Jörg, Dundler, Agnes, Bender, Stefan, Rässler, Susanne, Zwick, Thomas

"For micro-datasets considered for release as scientific or public use files, statistical agencies have to face the dilemma of guaranteeing the confidentiality of survey respondents on the one hand...

FDZ-Jahresbericht 2007

Bender, Stefan, Hartmann, Benedikt, Herrlinger, Dagmar

"Nach den beiden Evaluationen 2006 durch den Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten und 2007 durch den Wissenschaftsrat möchte das Forschungsdatenzentrum der Bundesagentur für Arbeit im Institut...

Was muten sich Arbeitslose zu? : Lohnkonzessionen von ALG-II-Empfängern

Bender, Stefan, Koch, Susanne, Meßmann, Susanne, Walwei, Ulrich

"The paper examines wage requirements of recipients of Unemployment Benefit II (ALG II), taking up former evaluations by Christensen on wage demands of the unemployed in Germany. Unlike Christensen,...

FDZ-Jahresbericht 2007

Bender, Stefan, Hartmann, Benedikt, Herrlinger, Dagmar

Nach den beiden Evaluationen 2006 durch den Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten und 2007 durch den Wissenschaftsrat möchte das Forschungsdatenzentrum der Bundesagentur für Arbeit im Institut für...

IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample

Bender, Stefan, Haas, Anette, Klose, Christoph

The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which...

Flexible Work Systems and the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Bauer, Thomas K., Bender, Stefan

A growing literature is concerned with the effects of flexible workplace systems or High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) on wages. This paper makes use of a new employer-employee-linked panel...

Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover

Bauer, Thomas K., Bender, Stefan

This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate...

In the Right Place at the Wrong Time: The Role of Firms and Luck in Young Workers’ Careers

Von Wachter, Till, Bender, Stefan

We exploit administrative data on young German workers and their employers to study the long-term effects of an early job loss. To account for non-random sorting of workers into firms with different...

Flexible Wages Systems and the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Bauer, Thomas, Bender, Stefan

A growing theoretical and empirical literature is concerned with the effects of flexible workplace systems or High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) on wages. Existing theoretical literature...

Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover

Bauer, Thomas, Bender, Stefan

This Paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel dataset to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate...

Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas, Bender, Stefan, Bonin, Holger

Based on a large employer-employee matched dataset, the Paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small...

Lebenssituation und Soziale Sicherung 2005 (LSS 2005) : IAB-Querschnittsbefragung SGB II. Handbuch-Version 1.0.0

Meßmann, Susanne, Bender, Stefan, Rudolph, Helmut, Hirseland, Andreas, Bruckmeier, Kerstin, Wübbeke, Christina, ...

"Der Datenreport dokumentiert die IAB Querschnittsbefragung 'Lebenssituation und Soziale Sicherung 2005', die aus zwei Samples besteht (LSS 2005-I und LSS 2005-II)1. Er stellt damit eine...

WeLL - Berufliche Weiterbildung als Bestandteil Lebenslangen Lernens : Projektbericht

Bender, Stefan, Fertig, Michael, Görlitz, Katja, Huber, Martina, Hummelsheim, Stefan, Knerr, Petra, ...

"Im Rahmen des Projekts 'Berufliche Weiterbildung als Bestandteil Lebenslangen Lernens' (WeLL) wird ein Linked Employer-Employee-Datensatz im Paneldesign erstellt, welcher umfangreiche Informationen...

FDZ annual report 2007

Bender, Stefan, Hartmann, Benedikt, Herrlinger, Dagmar

"Following the two evaluations by the German Council for Social and Economic Data in 2006 and by the German Council of Science and Humanities in 2007, the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal...

WeLL – Unique Linked Employer-Employee Data on Further Training in Germany

Stefan Bender, Michael Fertig, Katja Görlitz, Martina Huber, Alexandra Schmucker

This paper explains the main features of an innovative linked employer-employee data set with a particular focus on continuous training in Germany, calledWeLL. The data set comprises establishment...

FDZ-Jahresbericht 2008

Bender, Stefan, Hartmann, Benedikt, Haug, Katharina, Herrlinger, Dagmar, Schmucker, Alexandra

"Following the exceedingly positive response to our Annual Report 2007, you now have the Annual Report 2008 of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for...

Establishment-level wage effects of entering motherhood

Miriam Beblo, Stefan Bender, Elke Wolf

We analyse the wage effects following employment breaks of women who enter motherhood using a novel matching approach where mothers' wages upon return to work are compared to those of their female...

FDZ Annual Report 2008

Bender, Stefan, Hartmann, Benedikt, Haug, Katharina, Herrlinger, Dagmar, Schmucker, Alexandra

"Following the exceedingly positive response to our Annual Report 2007, you now have the Annual Report 2008 of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for...

Evaluating the labour-market effects of compulsory military service

Bauer, Thomas K., Bender, Stefan, Paloyo, Alfredo R., Schmidt, Christoph M.

"We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts' subsequent labour-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany...

Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service

Bauer, Thomas, Bender, Stefan, Paloyo, Alfredo R., Schmidt, Christoph M.

We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts’ subsequent labor-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany...