Rehm

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.

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The package estimates linear models on panel data structures in the presence of AR(1)-type autocorrelation as well as panel heteroskedasticity and/or contemporaneous correlation. First, AR(1)-type autocorrelation is addressed via a two-step Prais-Winsten feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) procedure, where the autocorrelation coefficients may be panel-specific. A number of common estimators for the autocorrelation coefficient are supported. In case of panel heteroskedasticty, one can choose to use a sandwich-type robust standard error estimator with OLS or a panel weighted least squares estimator after the two-step Prais-Winsten estimator. Alternatively, if panels are both heteroskedastic and contemporaneously correlated, the package supports panel-corrected standard errors (PCSEs) as well as the Parks-Kmenta FGLS estimator.

Konstantin Kashin

panelAR

Estimation of Linear AR(1) Panel Data Models with
Cross-Sectional Heteroskedasticity and/or Correlation

Rehm function

A dataframe with the following variables: 
	<ul>
<li><code>year</code>: time identifier.
		</li>
<li><code>ccode</code>: country identifier.
		</li>
<li><code>NURR</code>: net unemployment replacement rate, as a proxy for unemployment benefit generosity.
		</li>
<li><code>gini</code>: Gini coefficient of unemployment risk.
		</li>
<li><code>mean_ur</code>: national unemployment rate, calculated as weighted mean of occupational unemployment rates (weights are occupation sizes).
		</li>
<li><code>selfemp</code>: self-employment as a percentage of civilian employment.
		</li>
<li><code>cum_right</code>: cumulative percent of total cabinet posts held by right-wing parties since 1990 (weighted by days).
		</li>
<li><code>tradeunion</code>: trade union density.
		</li>
<li><code>deficit</code>: budget deficit as a percentage of GDP.
		</li>
<li><code>tradeopen</code>: trade openness (sum of imports and exports as proportion of GDP).
		</li>
<li><code>gdp_growth</code>: GDP growth.
	</li>
</ul> 

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Rehm, Philipp. 2011. &#147;Social Policy by Popular Demand.&#148; <em>World Politics</em> 63(2): 271-299.

Rehm: Rehm (2011) Replication Data

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