AER (version 0.2-2)

SwissLabor: Swiss Labor Market Participation Data

Description

Cross-section data originating from the health survey SOMIPOPS for Switzerland in 1981.

Usage

data("SwissLabor")

source

Journal of Applied Econometrics Data Archive.

http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1996-v11.3/gerfin/

References

Gerfin, M. (1996). Parametric and Semi-Parametric Estimation of the Binary Response Model of Labour Market Participation. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 11, 321--339.

Examples

data("SwissLabor")

### Gerfin (1996), Table I.
fm_probit <- glm(participation ~ . + I(age^2), data = SwissLabor, family = binomial(link = "probit"))
summary(fm_probit)

### alternatively
fm_logit <- glm(participation ~ . + I(age^2), data = SwissLabor, family = binomial)
summary(fm_logit)