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Unemployment Duration
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Description
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a cross-section from 1993

*number of observations* : 452

*observation* : individuals

*country* : United States

Usage
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::

    data(Unemployment)

Format
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A dataframe containing :

duration
    duration of first spell of unemployment, t, in weeks

spell
    1 if spell is complete

race
    one of nonwhite, white

sex
    one of male, female

reason
    reason for unemployment, one of new (new entrant), lose (job loser),
    leave (job leaver), reentr (labor force reentrant)

search
    'yes' if (1) the unemployment spell is completed between the first
    and second surveys and number of methods used to search > average
    number of methods used across all records in the sample, or, (2) for
    individuals who remain unemployed for consecutive surveys, if the
    number of methods used is strictly nondecreasing at all survey
    points, and is strictly increasing at least at one survey point

pubemp
    'yes' if an individual used a public employment agency to search for
    work at any survey points relating to the individuals first
    unemployment spell

ftp1
    1 if an individual is searching for full time work at survey 1

ftp2
    1 if an individual is searching for full time work at survey 2

ftp3
    1 if an individual is searching for full time work at survey 3

ftp4
    1 if an individual is searching for full time work at survey 4

nobs
    number of observations on the first spell of unemployment for the
    record

Source
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Romeo, Charles J. (1999) “Conducting inference in semiparametric
duration models under inequality restrictions on the shape of the hazard
implied by the job search theory”, *Journal of Applied Econometrics*,
**14(6)**, 587–605.

References
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Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive :
`http://jae.wiley.com/jae/ <http://jae.wiley.com/jae/>`_.

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