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