DAAG (version 0.37)

wages1833: Wages of Lancashire Cotton Factory Workers in 1833

Description

The wages1833 data frame gives the wages of Lancashire cotton factory workers in 1833.

Usage

data(wages1833)

source

Boot, H.M. 1995. How Skilled Were the Lancashire Cotton Factory Workers in 1833? Economic History Review 48: 283-303.

Examples

data(wages1833)
attach(wages1833)
plot(mwage~age,ylim=range(c(mwage,fwage[fwage>0])))
points(fwage[fwage>0]~age[fwage>0],pch=15,col="red")
lines(lowess(age,mwage))
lines(lowess(age[fwage>0],fwage[fwage>0]),col="red")