R: Unemployment Duration

Unemployment {Ecdat}

R Documentation

Unemployment Duration

Description

a cross-section from 1993

number of observations : 452

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Unemployment)

Format

A dataframe containing :

duration: duration of first spell of unemployment, t, in weeks
spell: 1 if spell is complete
race: one of nonwhite, white
sex: one of male, female
reason: reason for unemployment, one of new (new entrant), lose (job loser), leave (job leaver), reentr (labor force reentrant)
search: 'yes' if (1) the unemployment spell is completed between the first and second surveys and number of methods used to search > average number of methods used across all records in the sample, or, (2) for individuals who remain unemployed for consecutive surveys, if the number of methods used is strictly nondecreasing at all survey points, and is strictly increasing at least at one survey point
pubemp: 'yes' if an individual used a public employment agency to search for work at any survey points relating to the individuals first unemployment spell
ftp1: 1 if an individual is searching for full time work at survey 1
ftp2: 1 if an individual is searching for full time work at survey 2
ftp3: 1 if an individual is searching for full time work at survey 3
ftp4: 1 if an individual is searching for full time work at survey 4
nobs: number of observations on the first spell of unemployment for the record

Source

Romeo, Charles J. (1999) “Conducting inference in semiparametric duration models under inequality restrictions on the shape of the hazard implied by the job search theory”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 14(6), 587–605.

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