jobless: Unemployment duration

joblessR Documentation

Unemployment duration

Description

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).

Usage

jobless

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

Section in Text

17.11 Duration Example: Unemployment Duration, pp. 603-8, 632-6, 658-62

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.

McCall, B. (1996), Unemployment Insurance Rules, Joblessness, and Part-time Work," Econometrica, 64, 647-682.

Examples

summary(jobless)

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