Unemployment duration
Data from the January Current Population Survey's Displaced Workers Supplements (DWS) for the years 1986, 1988, 1990, and 1992. Only individuals between 20 and 61 years old who were displaced from nonagricultural jobs due to plant closure, slack work, or abolished positions are included in the sample (McCall, 1996). Cameron and Trivedi (2005).
data
Format
A data frame with 3343 observations and 43 variables:
- spell: length of spell (joblessness duration) 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
- ui: = 1 if filed unemployment insurance claim
- reprate: eligible replacement rate, weekly benefit amount divided by weekly earnings in the lost job,
- logwage: log weekly earnings in lost job, 1985 prices
- tenure: years tenure in lost job
- disrate: eligible disregard rate
- slack: = 1 if lost job due to slack work
- abolpos: = 1 if lost job due to abolished position
- explose: = 1 if expected to lose job
- stateur: state unemployment rate, percent
- houshead: = 1 if household head
- married: = 1 if married
- female: = 1 if female
- child: = 1 if has children
- ychild: = 1 if has children five age and under
- nonwhite: = 1 if nonwhite
- age: age
- schlt12: = 1 if less than 12 years schooling
- schgt12: = 1 if more than 12 years schooling
- smsa: = 1 if resides in SMSA (standard metropolitan statistical area)
- bluecoll: = 1 if los job blue collar
- mining: = 1 if lost job in mining
- constr: = 1 if lost job in construction
- transp: = 1 if lost job in transportation
- trade: = 1 if lost job in trade
- fire: = 1 if lost job in finance, insurance and real estate sector
- services: = 1 if lost job in services sector
- pubadmin: = 1 if lost job in the public administration
- year85: = 1 if year of job loss is 1985
- year87: = 1 if year of job loss is 1987
- year89: = 1 if year of job loss is 1989
- midatl: = 1 if residence in Middle Atlantic
- encen: = 1 if residence in East North Central
- wncen: = 1 if residence in West North Central
- southatl: = 1 if residence in South Atlantic
- escen: = 1 if residence in East South Central
- wscen: = 1 if residence in West South Central
- mountain: = 1 if residence in Mountain region
- pacific: = 1 if residence in Pacific region
Source
http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/mmabook/mmadata.html
jobless
Section in Text
17.11 Duration Example: Unemployment Duration, pp. 603-8, 632-6, 658-62
Examples
summary(jobless)
References
Cameron, A. and Trivedi, P. (2005), "Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications," Cambridge University Press, New York.
McCall, B. (1996), Unemployment Insurance Rules, Joblessness, and Part-time Work," Econometrica, 64, 647-682.