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Panel Data of Individual Wages
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Description
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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
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::

    data(Wages)

Format
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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
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Online complements to Baltagi (2001).

`http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/ <http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/>`_

References
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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.
