Last data update: 2014.03.03
R: Wages and Education of Young Males
Wages and Education of Young Males
Description
A panel of 545 observations from 1980 to 1987
total number of observations : 4360
observation : individuals
country : United States
Usage
data(Males)
Format
A data frame containing :
nr identifier
year year
school years of schooling
exper years of experience (computed as age-6-school
)
union wage set by collective bargaining ?
ethn a factor with levels black, hisp, other
married married?
health health problem ?
wage log of hourly wage
industry a factor with 12 levels
occupation a factor with 9 levels
residence a factor with levels rural area, north east, northern central, south
Source
Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive
http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1998-v13.2/vella-verbeek/ .
References
Vella, F. and M. Verbeek (1998) “Whose Wages Do Unions Raise? A Dynamic Model of Unionism and Wage Rate Determination for Young Men”, Journal of Applied Econometrics , 13 (2), 163–183.
Verbeek, M. (2004) A Guide to Modern Econometrics , John Wiley and Sons, chapter 10.
Results