R Dataset / Package Ecdat / UnempDur

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the UnempDur data set which pertains to Unemployment Duration . The UnempDur data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the UnempDur data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("UnempDur"). This will load the data into a variable called UnempDur. If R says the UnempDur data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the UnempDur R data set. The size of this file is about 132,362 bytes.

Unemployment Duration

Description

Journal of Business Economics and Statistics web site : http://amstat.tandfonline.com/loi/ubes20

number of observations : 3343

Usage

data(UnempDur)

Format

A time serie containing :

spell: length of spell in number of two-week intervals
censor1: = 1 if re-employed at full-time job
censor2: = 1 if re-employed at part-time job
censor3: 1 if re-employed but left job: pt-ft status unknown
censor4: 1 if still jobless
age: age
ui: = 1 if filed UI claim
reprate: eligible replacement rate
disrate: eligible disregard rate
logwage: log weekly earnings in lost job (1985\$)
tenure: years tenure in lost job

Source

McCall, B.P. (1996) “Unemployment Insurance Rules, Joblessness, and Part-time Work”, Econometrica, 64, 647–682.

References

Cameron, A.C. and P.K. Trivedi (2005) Microeconometrics : methods and applications, Cambridge, pp. 603–8, 632–6, 658–62, 671–4 and 692.

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