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Unemployment of Blue Collar Workers
Description
a cross-section from 1972
number of observations : 4877
observation : individuals
country : United States
Usage
data(Benefits)Format
A time series containing :
- stateur
state unemployment rate (in %)
- statemb
state maximum benefit level
- state
state of residence code
- age
age in years
- tenure
years of tenure in job lost
- joblost
-
a factor with levels (slack_work,position_abolished,seasonal_job_ended,other)
- nwhite
non-white ?
- school12
more than 12 years of school ?
- sex
a factor with levels (male,female)
- bluecol
blue collar worker ?
- smsa
lives in SMSA ?
- married
married ?
- dkids
has kids ?
- dykids
has young kids (0-5 yrs) ?
- yrdispl
-
year of job displacement (1982=1,..., 1991=10)
- rr
replacement rate
- head
is head of household ?
- ui
-
applied for (and received) UI benefits ?
Source
McCall, B.P. (1995) “The impact of unemployment insurance benefit levels on recipiency”, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 13, 189–198.
References
Verbeek, Marno (2004) A Guide to Modern Econometrics, John Wiley and Sons, chapter 7.
Journal of Business Economics and Statistics web site : https://amstat.tandfonline.com/loi/ubes20.
See Also
Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations,