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Wages: Panel Data of Individual Wages

Description

A panel of 595 observations from 1976 to 1982, taken from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).

total number of observations : 4165

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Wages)

Arguments

Format

A data frame containing:
exp
years of full-time work experience.
wks
weeks worked.
bluecol
blue collar?
ind
works in a manufacturing industry?
south
resides in the south?
smsa
resides in a standard metropolitan statistical area?
married
married?
sex
a factor with levels "male" and "female"
union
individual's wage set by a union contract?
ed
years of education.
black
is the individual black?
lwage
logarithm of wage.

References

Baltagi, Badi H. (2001) Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 2nd ed., John Wiley and Sons.

Baltagi, Badi H. (2013) Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 5th ed., John Wiley and Sons.

Cornwell, C. and P. Rupert (1988) “Efficient estimation with panel data: an empirical comparison of instrumental variables estimators”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 3, pp. 149--155.