Public Use Data for Effects of Relaxing the Job Search Requirement on Job Match Quality
| Release Date: | January 2015 |
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| Time Period of Data Collection: | 1986–97 |
| Brief Description: | Administrative data: 1986–87 Washington Alternative Work Search experiment (merged with nine years of follow-up administrative wage records) |
| Geographic Coverage: | State |
| Study Populations: | Unemployed |
| Unit(s) of Observation: | Individuals |
| Topics: | Unemployment Insurance |
| Research method: | Randomized Controlled Trial |
| Sampling Method: | Random Assignment. All eligible UI claimants at the Tacoma Employment Service Center between July 1986 and August 1987 were randomly assigned to a control group, which imposed a standard work search requirement, or to an exception reporting (ER) treatment group, which effectively eliminated the work search requirement. |
- Metadata (csv; .05 MB)
- pud.dta (Stata; 1.66 MB)
- Number of Variables: 163
- Summary of Variables: See Appendix A of Full Summary
- Number of Observations: 7,059
- Link to data file specific codebook or documentation:
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