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<h2>Unemployment Duration </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>Journal of Business Economics and Statistics web site : <a href="http://www.amstat.org/publications/jbes/">http://www.amstat.org/publications/jbes/</a>
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<p><EM>number of observations</EM> :  3343
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<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(UnempDur)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A time serie containing :
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<dt>spell</dt><dd><p>length of spell in number of two-week intervals</p>
</dd>
<dt>censor1</dt><dd><p>= 1 if re-employed at full-time job</p>
</dd>
<dt>censor2</dt><dd><p>= 1 if re-employed at part-time job</p>
</dd>
<dt>censor3</dt><dd><p>1 if re-employed but left job: pt-ft status unknown</p>
</dd>
<dt>censor4</dt><dd><p>1 if still jobless</p>
</dd>
<dt>age</dt><dd><p>age</p>
</dd>
<dt>ui</dt><dd><p>= 1 if filed UI claim</p>
</dd>
<dt>reprate</dt><dd><p>eligible replacement rate</p>
</dd>
<dt>disrate</dt><dd><p>eligible disregard rate</p>
</dd>
<dt>logwage</dt><dd><p>log weekly earnings in lost job (1985\$)</p>
</dd>
<dt>tenure</dt><dd><p>years tenure in lost job</p>
</dd>
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<h3>Source</h3>


<p>McCall, B.P. (1996) &ldquo;Unemployment Insurance Rules, Joblessness, and Part-time Work&rdquo;, <EM>Econometrica</EM>, <B>64</B>, 647&ndash;682.
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<h3>References</h3>


<p>Cameron, A.C.  and  P.K.  Trivedi (2005) <EM>Microeconometrics : methods and applications</EM>, Cambridge, pp. 603&ndash;8, 632&ndash;6, 658&ndash;62, 671&ndash;4 and 692.
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<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>Index.Source</code>, <code>Index.Economics</code>, <code>Index.Econometrics</code>, <code>Index.Observations</code>,
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<p><code>Index.Time.Series</code></p>


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