Ecdat (version 0.3-9)

Wages: Panel Data of Individual Wages

Description

a panel of 595 observations from 1976 to 1982

number of observations : 4165

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Wages)

Arguments

Format

A dataframe 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 are ?

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

References

Baltagi, Badi H. (2003) Econometric analysis of panel data, John Wiley and sons, https://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations,

Index.Time.Series