Linking Graduate Data from The Nuremberg Institute of Technology and Administrative Labor Market Biography Data from The Institute for Employment Research

Abstract

This paper documents the process of linking the records of all bachelor’s and master’s graduates of the Nuremberg Institute of Technology between 2010 and 2020 with administrative labor market biography data from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). The success rate of the linkage was 98%, which is well above the average of previous linkage projects with IAB data. We only find negligible differences between characteristics of matched and unmatched graduates. Notably, linkage success is lower for foreign graduates than for German graduates. On average, the time to graduation is shorter for unmatched than for matched graduates.