| UnionWage {pglm} | R Documentation |
Unionism and Wage Rate Determination
Description
yearly observations of 545 individuals from 1980 to 1987
number of observations : 4360
country : United States
economic topic : labor economics
econometrics topic : endogeneity
Usage
data(UnionWage)Format
A dataframe containing :
- id
the individual index
- year
the year
- exper
the experience, computed as age - 6 - schooling
- health
does the individual has health disability ?
- hours
the number of hours worked
- married
is the individual married ?
- rural
does the individual lives in a rural area ?
- school
years of schooling
- union
does the wage is set by collective bargaining
- wage
hourly wage in US dollars
- sector
one of agricultural, mining, construction, trade, transportation, finance, businessrepair, personalservice, entertainment, manufacturing, pro.rel.service, pub.admin
- occ
one of proftech, manoffpro, sales, clerical, craftfor, operative, laborfarm, farmlabor, service
- com
one of black, hisp and other
- region
the region, one of NorthEast, NothernCentral, South and other
Source
Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/.
References
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.