Wages {Ecdat}R Documentation

Panel Datas 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)

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

Source

Cornwell, C. and P. Rupert (1988) “Efficient estimation with panel data: an empirical comparison of instrumental variables estimators”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 3, 149–155.

Panel study of income dynamics.

References

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

See Also

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

Index.Time.Series


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