Wages and Education of Young Males

Description

a panel of 545 observations from 1980 to 1987

number of observations : 4360

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Males)

Format

A dataframe containing :

nr

identifiant

year

year

school

years of schooling

exper

years of experience (=age-6-school)

union

wage set by collective bargaining ?

ethn

a factor with levels (black,hisp,other)

maried

maried ?

health

healph 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, nothern central, south)

Source

National Longitudinal Survey (NLS Youth Sample).

Vella, F. and M. Verbeek (1998) “Whose wages do unions raise ? A dynamic model of unionism and wage”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13, 163–183.

References

Verbeek, Marno (2004) A guide to modern econometrics, John Wiley and Sons, https://feb.kuleuven.be/GME/, chapter 10.

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://jae.wiley.com/jae/.

See Also

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

Index.Time.Series