uswages {faraway}R Documentation

Weekly wages of US male workers in 1988

Description

The uswages data frame has 2000 rows and 10 columns. Weekly Wages for US male workers sampled from the Current Population Survey in 1988.

Usage

data(uswages)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

wage
Real weekly wages in dollars (deflated by personal consumption expenditures - 1992 base year)

educ
Years of education
exper
Years of experience
race
1 if Black, 0 if White (other races not in sample)
smsa
1 if living in Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, 0 if not
ne
1 if living in the North East
mw
1 if living in the Midwest
we
1 if living in the West
so
1 if living in the South
pt
1 if working part time, 0 if not

Source

Bierens, H.J., and D. Ginther (2001): "Integrated Conditional Moment Testing of Quantile Regression Models", Empirical Economics 26, 307-324


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