R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Labour

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Labour data set which pertains to Belgian Firms . The Labour data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Labour data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Labour"). This will load the data into a variable called Labour. If R says the Labour data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Labour R data set. The size of this file is about 21,860 bytes.

Belgian Firms

Description

a cross-section from 1996

number of observations : 569

observation : production units

country : Belgium

Usage

data(Labour)

Format

A dataframe containing :

capital: total fixed assets, end of 1995 (in 1000000 euro)
labour: number of workers (employment)
output: value added (in 1000000 euro)
wage: wage costs per worker (in 1000 euro)

References

Verbeek, Marno (2004) A Guide to Modern Econometrics, John Wiley and Sons, chapter 4.

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