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data.sick: Sick Leave and Unemployment

Description

This is a data set on the unemployment rates and the sick leave in Germany in the years 1992 to 2014.

Usage

data.sick

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 23 observations on the following three variables:

yearyear.
joblessaverage unemployment rate during that year (in percent).
sickaverage of employees' sick leave during that year (in percent).

Details

In Auer et al. (2024, Chap. 18) these data are used to illustrate the consequences of autocorrelated error terms.

References

Auer, L.v., Hoffmann, S. & Kranz, T. (2024): Ökonometrie - Das R-Arbeitsbuch, 2nd ed., Springer-Gabler (https://www.oekonometrie-lernen.de).