data.sick {desk}

Sick Leave and Unemployment

Description

This is a data set on the unemployment rates and the sick leave in Germany in the years 1992 to 2014.

Usage

data.sick

Format

A data frame with 23 observations on the following three variables:

year	year.
jobless	average unemployment rate during that year (in percent).
sick	average of employees' sick leave during that year (in percent).

Details

In Auer et al. (2023, Chap. 18) these data are used to illustrate the consequences of autocorrelated error terms.

Source

Imported from Federal Statistical Office of Germany.

References

Auer, L.v., Hoffmann, S. & Kranz, T. (2023): Ökonometrie - Das R-Arbeitsbuch, 2nd ed., Springer-Gabler (https://www.oekonometrie-lernen.de).