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pglm (version 0.1-2)

Unions: Unions and Wages

Description

a balanced panel of 545 individuals for 8 years 1980 to 1987

number of observations : 4360

observation : Individuals country : United States

Usage

data(Unions)

Arguments

Format

A dataframe containing :
id
the individual index,
year
the year,
age
the age,
exper
the experience, computed as age - 6 - schooling,
union
does the wage is set by collective bargaining,
married
is the individual married ?
ethn
one of 'black', 'hisp' and 'other',
disability
does the individual has health disability ?
rural
does the individual lives in a rural area ?
region
the region, one of 'NorthEast', 'NothernCentral', 'South' and 'other',
wage
hourly wage in US dollars,
sector
one of 'agricultural', 'mining', 'construction', 'trade', 'transportation', 'finance', 'businessrepair', 'personalservice', 'entertainment', 'manufacturing', 'pro.rel.service', 'pub.admin',
occ
one of 'proftech', 'manoffpro', 'sales', 'clerical', 'craftfor', 'operative', 'laborfarm', 'farmlabor', 'service'.

Source

National Longitudinal Survey (Youth Sample)

References

Vella F. and Verbeek M. (1998) Whose wages do unions raise ? A dynamic model of unionism and wage rate determination for young men, Journal of Applied Economics, 13, pp.163-183.