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Panel Datas of Individual Wages
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Description
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a panel of 595 observations from 1976 to 1982

*number of observations* : 4165

*observation* : individuals

*country* : United States

Usage
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::

    data(Wages)

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

See Also
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``Index.Source``, ``Index.Economics``, ``Index.Econometrics``,
``Index.Observations``,

``Index.Time.Series``
