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Wages and Education of Young Males
Description
A panel of 545 observations from 1980 to 1987
Format
A data frame containing :
- nr
identifier
- year
year
- school
years of schooling
- exper
years of experience (computed as
age-6-school)- union
wage set by collective bargaining?
- ethn
a factor with levels
black, hisp, other- married
married?
- health
health problem?
- wage
log of hourly wage
- industry
a factor with 12 levels
- occupation
a factor with 9 levels
- residence
a factor with levels
rural_area, north_east, northern_central, south
Details
total number of observations : 4360
observation : individuals
country : United States
Source
Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1998-v13.2/vella-verbeek/.
References
Vella F, Verbeek M (1998). “Whose wages do unions raise? A dynamic model of unionism and wage rate determination for young men.” Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13, 163–183.
Verbeek M (2004). A Guide to Modern Econometrics, 2nd edition. Wiley.