get_non_high_school_wage_penalty {epidata} | R Documentation |
Retreive the percent by which hourly wages of workers without a high school diploma (or equivalent) are less than wages of otherwise equivalent workers who have graduated from high school
Description
A regression-based non-high school wage penalty of 21.8 percent means that on average workers without a high school diploma are paid 21.8 percent less per hour than workers with a high school diploma, all else held equal (controlling for gender, race and ethnicity, education, experience, and geographic location).
Usage
get_non_high_school_wage_penalty(by = NULL)
Arguments
by |
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Value
tbl_df
with data filtered by the selected criteria.
References
Economic Policy Institute Data Library
Examples
## Not run:
if (not_dos()) get_non_high_school_wage_penalty()
if (not_dos()) get_non_high_school_wage_penalty("g")
## End(Not run)
[Package epidata version 0.4.0 Index]