Ecdat (version 0.2-9)

StrikeDur: Strikes Duration

Description

a cross-section from 1968 to 1976

number of observations : 566

country : United States

Usage

data(StrikeDur)

Format

A dataframe containing :

dur

duration of the strike in days

gdp

measure of stage of business cycle (deviation of monthly log industrial production in manufacturing from prediction from OLS on time, time-squared and monthly dummies)

Source

Kennan, J. (1985) “The Duration of Contract strikes in U.S. Manufacturing”, Journal of Econometrics, 28, 5-28.

References

Cameron, A.C. and P.K. Trivedi (2005) Microeconometrics : methods and applications, Cambridge, pp. 574--5 abd 582.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations