plm (version 2.2-5)

Wages: Panel Data of Individual Wages

Description

A panel of 595 individuals from 1976 to 1982, taken from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The data are organized as a stacked time series/balanced panel, see Examples on how to convert to a pdata.frame.

Arguments

Format

A data frame 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 area?

married

married?

sex

a factor with levels "male" and "female"

union

individual's wage set by a union contract?

ed

years of education.

black

is the individual black?

lwage

logarithm of wage.

Details

total number of observations : 4165

observation : individuals

country : United States

References

BALT:01plm

BALT:13plm

CORN:RUPE:88plm

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
# data set 'Wages' is organized as a stacked time series/balanced panel
data("Wages", package = "plm")
Wag <- pdata.frame(Wages, index=595)

# }

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