R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Wages

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Wages data set which pertains to Panel Datas of Individual Wages . The Wages data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Wages data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Wages"). This will load the data into a variable called Wages. If R says the Wages 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 Wages R data set. The size of this file is about 243,838 bytes.

Panel Datas of Individual Wages

Description

a panel of 595 observations from 1976 to 1982

number of observations : 4165

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Wages)

Format

A dataframe 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 are ?
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

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.

Panel study of income dynamics.

References

Baltagi, Badi H. (2003) Econometric analysis of panel data, John Wiley and sons, http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/.

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