Wages {plm}R Documentation

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)

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", "female"
union
individual's wage set by a union contract?
ed
years of education.
black
is the individual black?
lwage
logarithm of wage.

Source

Online complements to Baltagi (2001).

http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/

References

Baltagi, Badi H. (2003) Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 2nd 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, 149–155.


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