Males {Ecdat}R Documentation

Wages and Education of Young Males

Description

a panel of 545 observations from 1980 to 1987

number of observations : 4360

observation : individuals

country : Belgium

Usage

data(Males)

Format

A dataframe containing :

nr
identifiant
year
year
school
years of schooling
exper
years of experience (=age-6-school)
union
wage set by collective bargaining ?
race
a factor with levels (black,hisp,other)
maried
maried ? (a factor)
health
healph problem ? (a factor)
wage
log of hourly wage
industry
a factor with 12 levels
occupation
a factor with 9 levels
residence
a factor with levels (rural area, north east, nothern central, south)

Source

National Longitudinal Survey (NLS Youth Sample).

Vella, F. and M. Verbeek (1998) “Whose wages do unions raise ? A dynamic model of unionism and wage”, Journal of Applied Econometrics , 13, 163–183.

References

Verbeek, Marno (2004) A guide to modern econometrics, John Wiley and Sons, http://www.econ.kuleuven.ac.be/GME, chapter 10.

See Also

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


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