The data were collected in January-March 2002 by Pascale Petit for her PhD thesis (University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2004). A candidate is defined by the variables ("gender","age","child").
offer: add number.
gender: Woman or Man.
age: 25 or 37 years old.
child: number of children, 0 or 3.
educ: education, BAC = Baccalauréat = A-level, BTS = 2 years of vocational training after the A-level.
qual: qualification required by the offer, Administrative or Commercial.
date: January 2002, February 2002 or March 2002.
cv: CV template, A or B.
cont: length of labour contract, STC = short term contract (<=1 year), LTC = long term contract (>1 year with no ending date).
popp: promotion opportunity, Yes or No.
train: training included, Yes or No.
negow: negotiable wage, Yes or No.
incent: wage depending on output, Yes or No.
callback: TRUE if there was a non negative callback.
data(gender1)A data frame with 942 rows and 14 variables
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