benefits: Unemployement of Blue Collar Workers

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Unemployement of Blue Collar Workers

Description

a cross-section from 1972

number of observations : 4877

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

benefits

Format

A time serie 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 is 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, http://www.econ.kuleuven.ac.be/GME, chapter 7.

Journal of Business Economics and Statistics web site : http://www.amstat.org/publications/jbes/. "benefits"

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