chicago {GeneralOaxaca}

Labor market and demographic data for employed Hispanic workers in metropolitan Chicago

Description

Data from a 2013 sample of employed Hispanic workers in metropolitan Chicago. It is a subset of the 2013 Current Population Survey (CPS) Outgoing Rotation Groups (ORG) data set provided by the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC (CEPR, 2014).

Usage

data("chicago")

Format

A data frame with 712 observations on the following 9 variables. The 9 variables contain labor market and demographic information on a sample of employed Hispanic workers in the Chicago metropolitan area.

age

the worker's age, expressed in years

female

an indicator for female gender

foreign.born

an indicator for foreign-born status

LTHS

an indicator for having completed less than a high school (LTHS) education

high.school

an indicator for having completed a high school education

some.college

an indicator for having completed some college education

college

an indicator for having completed a college education

advanced.degree

an indicator for having completed an advanced degree

ln.real.wage

the natural logarithm of the worker's real wage (in 2013 U.S. dollars)

Source

Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). 2014. CPS ORG Uniform Extracts, Version 1.9 . Washington, DC.

Examples

data("chicago")
summary(chicago)