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Ecdat (version 0.2-9)

Males: Wages and Education of Young Males

Description

a panel of 545 observations from 1980 to 1987

number of observations : 4360

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Males)

Arguments

Format

A dataframe containing :
nr
identifiant
year
year
school
years of schooling
exper
years of experience (=age-6-school)
union
wage set by collective bargaining ?
ethn
a factor with levels (black,hisp,other)
maried
maried ?
health
healph problem ?
wage
log of hourly wage
industry
a factor with 12 levels
occupation
a factor with 9 levels
residence
a factor with levels (rural area, north east, nothern central, south)

Source

National Longitudinal Survey (NLS Youth Sample). Vella, F. and M. Verbeek (1998) “Whose wages do unions raise ? A dynamic model of unionism and wage”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13, 163--183.

References

Verbeek, Marno (2004) A guide to modern econometrics, John Wiley and Sons, https://feb.kuleuven.be/GME/, chapter 10.

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://jae.wiley.com/jae/.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations,

Index.Time.Series