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data.unempl: German Economic Growth and Unemployment Rates

Description

This is a data set on German economic growth and unemployment rates from 1992 to 2021.

Usage

data.unempl

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 30 observations on the following three variables:

yearyear.
unemplchange in German unemployment rate (in percentage points).
gdpchange in German gross domestic product (in percentage).

Details

In Auer (2023, Chap. 15) and Auer et al. (2024, Chap. 15) these yearly data are used to illustrate the estimation of regression models that exhibit a structural break.

References

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