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Strikes duration
Description
Data set on 566 contract strikes in U.S. manufacturing for the period 1968-76. The data has been used by Kennan (1985), Jaggia (1991), and others, and was originally published by the U.S. Department of Labor. Cameron and Trivedi (2005).
Usage
strikes
Format
A data frame with 566 observations and 2 variables:
- dur
duration of the strike, number of days from the start of the strike.
- gdp
measure of business cycle stage, deviation of monthly log industrial production in manufacturing.
Section in Text
17.2 Duration Models, pp. 574-5, 582
Source
http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/mmabook/mmadata.html
References
Cameron, A. and Trivedi, P. (2005), "Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications," Cambridge University Press, New York.
Kennan, J. (1985), "The Duration of Contract strikes in U.S. Manufacturing," Journal of Econometrics, 28, 5-28.
Jaggia, S. (1991), "Specification Tests Based on the Heterogeneous Generalized Gamma Model of Duration: With an Application to Kennan's Strike Data," Journal of Applied Econometrics, 6, 169–180.
Examples
summary(strikes)