A Norwegian perspective on data integration

Abstract

Labor market outcomes are the results of interactions between workers and firms. To analyze such interactions empirically one needs data with both worker and firm characteristics. Although such data are rare, a number of studies using linked employer-employee data have been published in the last decade. This has also been the case in Norway, where the strategy of relying on administrative registers in the production of official statistics have made it possible to construct large-scale linked employer-employee datasets for research purposes.