Males {plm}R Documentation

Wages and Education of Young Males

Description

A panel of 545 observations from 1980 to 1987

total number of observations : 4360

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Males)

Format

A data frame containing :

nr
identifier
year
year
school
years of schooling
exper
years of experience (computed as age-6-school)
union
wage set by collective bargaining ?
ethn
a factor with levels black, hisp, other
maried
maried?
health
health problem ?
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, northern central, south

Source

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive

http://www.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1998-v13.2/vella-verbeek/.

References

Vella, F. and M. Verbeek (1998) “Whose Wages Do Unions Raise? A Dynamic Model of Unionism and Wage Rate Determination for Young Men”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(2), 163–183.

Verbeek, M. (2004) A Guide to Modern Econometrics, John Wiley and Sons, http://www.econ.kuleuven.ac.be/GME, chapter 10.


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