Panel Data of Individual Wages

Description

A panel of 595 observations from 1976 to 1982, taken from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).

total number of observations : 4165

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Wages)

Format

A data frame containing:

exp

years of full-time work experience.

wks

weeks worked.

bluecol

blue collar?

ind

works in a manufacturing industry?

south

resides in the south?

smsa

resides in a standard metropolitan statistical area?

married

married?

sex

a factor with levels "male", "female"

union

individual's wage set by a union contract?

ed

years of education.

black

is the individual black?

lwage

logarithm of wage.

Source

Online complements to Baltagi (2001).

http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/

References

Baltagi, Badi H. (2003) Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 2nd ed., John Wiley and Sons.

Cornwell, C. and P. Rupert (1988) “Efficient estimation with panel data: an empirical comparison of instrumental variables estimators”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 3, 149–155.