Benefits: Unemployement of Blue Collar Workers
Description
a cross-section from 1972 number of observations : 4877
observation : individuals
country : United States
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.