Labor Force Participation

Description

a cross-section

number of observations : 872

observation : individuals

country : Switzerland

Usage

data(Participation)

Format

A dataframe containing :

lfp

labour force participation ?

lnnlinc

the log of nonlabour income

age

age in years divided by 10

educ

years of formal education

nyc

the number of young children (younger than 7)

noc

number of older children

foreign

foreigner ?

Source

Gerfin, Michael (1996) “Parametric and semiparametric estimation of the binary response”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 11(3), 321-340.

References

Davidson, R. and James G. MacKinnon (2004) Econometric Theory and Methods, New York, Oxford University Press, http://www.econ.queensu.ca/ETM/, chapter 11.

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

See Also

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