Till von Wachter Keynotes Federal Employment Agency’s Research Data Centre’s 20th Anniversary

The Federal Employment Agency’s Research Data Centre (FDZ) at the IAB turned 20!

To reflect on two decades of FDZ, Till von Wachter, Professor of Economics at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Director of the California Census Research Data Center, and Faculty Director of the California Policy Lab’s UCLA site, talks about his first encounters with the FDZ and sheds light on the importance of administrative data in labor market research. The FDZ is housed at the Institute for Labor Market and Occupational Research.