Create Synthetic Unemployment Periods for Missing Persons

Internal helper function to create synthetic unemployment periods for persons present in external events but not in main employment data.

Usage

.create_synthetic_unemployment(
  vecshift_data,
  events_data,
  person_id_column,
  max_duration,
  has_stato,
  date_columns
)

Arguments

vecshift_data

Main employment data

events_data

External events data

person_id_column

Person identifier column name

max_duration

Maximum synthetic unemployment duration

has_stato

Whether stato column exists

date_columns

Named vector of date columns

Value

Extended vecshift_data with synthetic unemployment periods