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)

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.

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