*********************************** ** Project: Gender differnces in willingness for regional mobility ** File-Author: Sebastian Baehr ** Date: 2019-04-16 ** File Name: readme.txt ** Purpose: EXPLANATION OF THE CONTENTS OF THE "DO FILES" *********************************** ** Data Access ** Accessing the data (Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security (PASS)) The data basis of this article is the Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security (PASS), Version 0616 v2. The data set is available via the Research Data Centre of the Federal Employment Agency in the Institute for Employment Research. Further information on the data and data access can be found on the website of the research dara center: https://fdz.iab.de/en/FDZ_Individual_Data/PASS.aspx A description of the questionaire programm and the included variables is also available for the current PASS release: https://fdz.iab.de/en/FDZ_Individual_Data/PASS/PASS-SUF0617v2.aspx ** Used Variables The used variables can be found in the analysis Do-file (gendervig_03_stat01.do). We generated these variables from original PASS variables The questionnaires of these are freely available from the linked webpage of the research data center. https://fdz.iab.de/en/FDZ_Individual_Data/PASS/PASS-SUF0617.aspx The article describes each used variable (pages 15-19 section data & methods) and provides descriptive statistics (table A2) for each of them. ** Regional unemployment data Federal-state-level unemployment rates that are specific to gender and the 2–digit occupational group This data is generated from the statistics of the German Federal Employment Agency. The data is stored in the subfolder \dta\orig\regio. *********************************** ** Do File Structure The supplemental .zip archive for this publication contains the following files. Stata files were created using Version 15 and may not be compatible with earlier versions. These are the do-files for generating the main and supplemental results described in the paper "Gender differences in willingness to move for interregional job offers". The gendervig_01_master.do contains links to all needed Do-files. ** 1. PASS Basis preparation This set of Do-files prepares the general information from the PASS data set. This set of Do-files is stored in the subfolder \basis\ pass-basis-data01-pintnow.do ** Prepare current interview date pass-basis-data02-bio.do ** Prepare Bio-Spell data pass-basis-data03-int.do ** Prepare interview variables pass-basis-data04-preg.do ** Prepare respondent register pass-basis-data05-regio.do ** Prepare regional identifiers pass-basis-data06-regdata.do ** Prepare regional indicators pass-basis-data07-couples.do ** Prepare couple data pass-basis-data08-resp.do ** Prepare respondent dataset pass-basis-data09-pweight.do ** Prepare respondent weight dataset pass-basis-data10-household.do ** Prepare household dataset pass-basis-data11-ub2spell.do ** Prepare UB-2 spell dataset pass-basis-data12-vignette.do ** Prepare vignette dataset pass-basis-data13-merge.do ** Merge individual datasets pass-basis-data14-vigpattern.do ** Prepare vignette response pattern per person pass-basis-data15-jlmr.do ** Perform preparations and analyses for the Journal for Labor market research pass-basis-data16-socnet.do ** Perform preparations and analyses for the social networks article ** 2. Article specific data preparation and analyses This set of do-files prepares article specific information from the PASS data set. This set of do-files is stored in the mainfolder. gendervig_02_data01.do ** Data preparation gendervig_03_stat01.do ** Data analyses All results are saved to the \res folder. The Do-File gendervig_03_stat01.do includes markers to the produced tables and figures to be searchable. Search for "// This generates ". *********************************** End ***********************************