Description

Replication data for macro-level study in Rehm (2011), specifically to replicate results reported in Table 3. Data structure is panels of OECD countries from 2001-2004. Data contains measurements of unemployment benefit generosity, Rehm's homogeneity of the risk pool measure, and various controls.

Usage

Format

A dataframe with the following variables:

• year: time identifier.

• ccode: country identifier.

• NURR: net unemployment replacement rate, as a proxy for unemployment benefit generosity.

• gini: Gini coefficient of unemployment risk.

• mean_ur: national unemployment rate, calculated as weighted mean of occupational unemployment rates (weights are occupation sizes).

• selfemp: self-employment as a percentage of civilian employment.

• cum_right: cumulative percent of total cabinet posts held by right-wing parties since 1990 (weighted by days).

• tradeunion: trade union density.

• deficit: budget deficit as a percentage of GDP.

• tradeopen: trade openness (sum of imports and exports as proportion of GDP).

• gdp_growth: GDP growth.

Source

Rehm, Philipp. 2011. “Social Policy by Popular Demand.” World Politics 63(2): 271-299.

See Also

panelAR. Run demo(Rehm) for examples which use Rehm.