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Ecdat (version 0.2-9)

Griliches: Wage Datas

Description

a cross-section from 1980

number of observations : 758

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Griliches)

Arguments

Format

A dataframe containing :
rns
residency in the southern states (first observation) ?
rns80
same variable for 1980
mrt
married (first observation) ?
mrt80
same variable for 1980
smsa
residency in metropolan areas (first observation) ?
smsa80
same variable for 1980
med
mother's education in years
iq
IQ score
kww
score on the ``knowledge of the world of work'' test
year
year of the observation
age
age (first observation)
age80
same variable for 1980
school
completed years of schooling (first observation)
school80
same variable for 1980
expr
experience in years (first observation)
expr80
same variable for 1980
tenure
tenure in years (first observation)
tenure80
same variable for 1980
lw
log wage (first observation)
lw80
same variable for 1980

Source

Blackburn, M. and Neumark D. (1992) “Unobserved ability, efficiency wages, and interindustry wage differentials”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107, 1421-1436.

References

Hayashi, F. (2000) Econometrics, Princeton University Press, http://fhayashi.fc2web.com/hayashi_econometrics.htm, chapter 3, 250-256.

See Also

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