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Unemployement of Blue Collar Workers
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Description
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a cross-section from 1972

*number of observations* : 4877

*observation* : individuals

*country* : United States

Usage
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::

    data(Benefits)

Format
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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
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McCall, B.P. (1995) “The impact of unemployment insurance benefit levels
on recipiency”, *Journal of Business and Economic Statistics*, **13**,
189–198.

References
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Verbeek, Marno (2004) *A guide to modern econometrics*, John Wiley and
Sons,
`http://www.econ.kuleuven.ac.be/GME <http://www.econ.kuleuven.ac.be/GME>`_,
chapter 7.

Journal of Business Economics and Statistics web site :
`http://www.amstat.org/publications/jbes/ <http://www.amstat.org/publications/jbes/>`_.

See Also
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``Index.Source``, ``Index.Economics``, ``Index.Econometrics``,
``Index.Observations``,

``Index.Time.Series``
