Wages {Ecdat}R Documentation

Panel Datas of Individual Wages

Description

a panel of 595 observations from 1976 to 1982

number of observations : 4165

Usage

data(Wages)

Format

A dataframe 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 are ?
married
married ?
sexe
a factor with levels (male,female)
union
individual's wage set by a union contract ?
ed
years of education
black
is the individual black ?
lwage
logarithm of wage

Source

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

Panel study of income dynamics.

References

Baltagi, Badi H. (2003) Econometric analysis of panel data, John Wiley and sons.

See Also

Index.Books, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations, Index.Time.Series


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