epidata (version 0.4.0)

get_wages_by_percentile: Retreive wages at ten distinct points in the wage distribution

Description

Wage percentiles are wages at ten distinct points in the wage distribution: deciles and the 95th percentile. The 95<U+2013>50 and 50<U+2013>10 wage ratios show how much greater wages are at the top than the middle, and at the middle than the bottom, respectively.

Usage

get_wages_by_percentile(by = NULL)

Arguments

by

NULL or character string with any combination of g (Gender) or r (Race), i.e. if you want to retrieve unemployment data by gender and race, you would set this parameter to "gr".

Value

tbl_df with data filtered by the selected criteria.

data frame

References

Economic Policy Institute Data Library

Examples

# NOT RUN {
get_wages_by_percentile()

get_wages_by_percentile("r")

get_wages_by_percentile("gr")
# }