Data for: The Cyclical Component of Labor Market Polarization and Jobless Recoveries in the US
Description
This data package contains the main data series used in the article titled "The Cyclical Component of Labor Market Polarization and Jobless Recoveries in the US", by Paul Gaggl (UNC Charlotte, pgaggl@uncc.edu) and Sylvia Kaufmann (Studycenter Gerzensee, sylvia.kaufmann@szgerzensee.ch), published in the Journal of Monetary Economics. The data are available in two data formats: 1) Stata (cpsb_mj3dd_ts_q_clean.dta) 2) delimited ASCII text (cpsb_mj3dd_ts_q_clean.csv) The underlying data sources are FRED for aggregate variables and the U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS) monthly basic files. More information on the data construction are given in the main text of the paper as well as the companion online appendix. Detailed variable labels are available in the file readme.txt