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Sample of male wage data from the CPS 1983-1985
Description
A sample of the the Merged Outgoing Rotation Group of the Current Population Survey of 1983, 1984 and 1985 used by Firpo, Fortin & Lemieux (2009). The data contains a selection of 10 variables and a sample of 26,695 observations of male workers – corresponding to a tenth of the original 266,956 observations. See Lemieux (2006) for details on data selection and recoding.
Usage
men8385
Format
A data frame with 26,695 rows and 10 variables.
- wage
Hourly wage in US dollars at constant prices
- union
Union status indicator
- nonwhite
Non-white indicator
- married
Married indicator
- education
Factor variable with 6 education levels: high-school graduates (reference), elementary, high-school dropouts , some college, college graduates, post college graduates
- experience
Factor variable with 9 potential experience levels, each of five years gap, 20 to 24 years as reference level)
- weights
CPS sample weights
- age
Age in years
- education_in_years
Education in years
- experience_in_years
Experience in years
Source
Sergio Firpo, Nicole M. Fortin, and Thomas Lemieux, "Unconditional Quantile Regressions", Econometrica, Vol. 77, No. 3 (May, 2009), pp. 953-973.
Replication files: <https://www.econometricsociety.org/publications/econometrica/2009/05/01/unconditional-quantile-regressions>
Thoms Lemieux, "Increasing Residual Wage Inequality: Composition Effects, Noisy Data, or Rising Demand for Skill?", American Economic Review, Vol. 96, No. 3 (June, 2006), pp. 461-498.