Males {plm} | R Documentation

## Wages and Education of Young Males

### Description

A panel of 545 observations from 1980 to 1987

total number of observations : 4360

observation : individuals

country : United States

### Usage

    data(Males)

### 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`

### Source

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1998-v13.2/vella-verbeek/.

### References

Vella, F. and M. Verbeek (1998) “Whose Wages Do Unions Raise? A Dynamic Model of Unionism and Wage Rate Determination for Young Men”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(2), 163–183.

Verbeek, M. (2004) A Guide to Modern Econometrics, John Wiley and Sons, chapter 10.

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