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Econometrics, Vol. 29, No. 6, 2014, pp. 984-1006.

The data used in this paper builds on anonymized micro data sets owned
by Statistics Denmark (SD). Analyses of such data sets must be done on
servers hosted by Statistics Denmark, and SD does not permit such data
to be used elsewhere. The analysis data set will be archived for at
least 5 years. In the interest of scientific validation of analyses
published using DS micro data, the Department of Economics and
Business, Aarhus University, will assist researchers in obtaining
access to the data set. The access is conditional on SD accepting a
contract with the researcher in which he accepts the conditions of DS
for using micro data, see

http://www.dst.dk/en/TilSalg/Forskningsservice/Dataadgang.aspx.

Requests for getting access can be emailed to:
datamanager_econ.au.dk@econ.au.dk.

SD maintain a vast amount of full population registers. The ones used
in this paper are called IDA (Integrated Database for Labor Market
Research) and SPELL (weekly transition data, maintained by SD but
compiled by the Department of Economics and Business, Aarhus
University). The data contain socio-economic information on the entire
Danish population, the population's attachment to the labor market,
and at which firms workers are employed on a yearly basis. Both
persons and firms can be monitored from 1980 onwards. At time of this
publication, the last year of observation is 2011. The data also hold
information on individual weekly labor market transitions and public
transfers. 

The gross sample used in this paper contains all male workers having
their main employment at a private firm in the period of 1987--2006
and having entered the labor market after 1980. Afterwards we cut the
sample as pointed out in the paper.

Kenneth Lykke Sørensen
KeLy [AT] kora.dk

Rune Vejlin
rvejlin [AT] econ.au.dk