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Sample of german unemployed
Description
This data give the time spent in the unemployment spell and the calendar time of entry in that spell for a sample of german
unemployed individuals. The full data have been resived from the Deutsches Institut fuer Wirtschaftsforschung
and were analysed in the larger study. The results can be found in the supplemented paper.
Usage
data(unemployed)
Format
A data frame containing 300 sampled observations. Description of columns:
- birth
- Calendar time of entry in the unemployment spell, measured in months, ranging from the year 1983 till 2000.
- surv
- Time spent in the unemployment spell, measured in months. The spells which lasted more than 36 months have been
truncated on 36 months and denoted as sensored.
- status
- Censoring indicator in the usual notation for right censored data.
- nation
- Nationality of the unemployed, german vs. others.
- gender
- Gender of the person.
- age
- Age has been categorized in young (till 25), middleage and old (over 50).
- training
- Whether an individual received a professional training.
- university
- Whether an individual has a university degree.
Source
Socio Economic Panel (SOEP), s. www.diw.de/deutsch/sop.
References
Kauermann G. and Khomski P. (2006). Additiv two way hazards model with varying coefficients, in press.
[Package
TwoWaySurvival version 2.2
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