The Establishment File of the German Social Insurance Statistics

By Michael Fritsch, Udo Brixy. Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2004

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The German Social Insurance Statistics („Statistik der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschaftigten“, SIS) was introduced in West Germany in 1973. In eastern Germany, it became compulsory from January 1991 on, shortly after unification. The SIS requires all public and private employers to report certain information about every employee who is subject to obligatory social insurance, i.e. health and unemployment insurance along with pension funds. The information collected can be transformed into an establishment file that provides longitudinal information about the establishments and their employees.

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The Impact of Regional Age Structure on Entrepreneurship (2009, methodology): “Our data on start-ups were generated from the German Social Insurance Statistics (see Fritsch and Brixy 2004 for a description of this data source).”
Measuring the knowledge base of regional innovation systems in Germany in terms of a Triple Helix dynamics, Research Policy (forthcoming). (2006, methodology): “These statistics are generated by the Federal Employment Office (Bundesagentur für Arbeit) (Fritsch & Brixy, 2004).”
How does industry specialization affect the efficiency of regional innovation systems? (2010, background): “Information on the number of R&D employment in the private sector stems from the German Social Insurance Statistics (Statistik der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschaeftigten) as described and documented by Fritsch and Brixy (2004). Employees are Jena Economic Research Papers 2008 - 058”
Universities and Innovation in Space (2007, background): “For a detailed description see Fritsch and Brixy (2004) .”
Regional characteristics, opportunity perception and entrepreneurial activities (2014, methodology): “For the technique of how to identify newly founded firms, see Fritsch and Brixy (2004). Note, that in IAB databases start-ups are only taken into account if they employed at least one person, that is, subject to compulsory social insurance.”
Entrepreneurial role models, fear of failure, and institutional approval of entrepreneurship: a tale of two regions (2016, background): “Thus, the first hire of employees is regarded as the start-up event in the BHP data (for details, see Fritsch and Brixy, 2004).”
Exploiting Entrepreneurial Opportunities: The Impact of Entrepreneurship on Growth (2007, background): “However, civil servants, army personnel, and self-employed are not obliged to contribute to the social insurance system and are, therefore, not included (for details see Fritsch and Brixy, 2004 ).”
The Effect of Industry, Region, and Time on New Business Survival – A Multi-Dimensional Analysis (2004, methodology): “A detailed analysis of our data base reveals that these data reflect new firm formation activity relatively well (see Fritsch and Brixy, 2004 ).”
Specialization as strategy for business incubators: An assessment of the Central German Multimedia Center (2008, methodology): “Following Rosenfeld et al. (2008) we used data from the establishment file of the German Social Insurance Statistics (see Fritsch and Brixy, 2004 for a description).”
Regional patterns and determinants of birth and survival of new firms in Western Germany (2007, methodology): “The database The data used in this study is derived from a rich database the ‘IAB Establishment Register’,1 which is sometimes also called the ‘German Social Insurance Statistics’ (see Fritsch and Brixy 2004 for details).”
Entrepreneurship, entry and performance of new business compared in two growth regimes: East and West Germany (2004, background): “For the years that followed, there is much more reliable data on East Germany then was earlier available.5 5 If not stated otherwise, data are taken from the establishment file of the German Social Insurance Statistics (see Fritsch and Brixy, 2004, for a description).”