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Wages and Education of Young Males
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Description
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a panel of 545 observations from 1980 to 1987

*number of observations* : 4360

*observation* : individuals

*country* : United States

Usage
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::

    data(Males)

Format
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A dataframe containing :

nr
    identifiant

year
    year

school
    years of schooling

exper
    years of experience (=age-6-school)

union
    wage set by collective bargaining ?

ethn
    a factor with levels (black,hisp,other)

maried
    maried ?

health
    healph 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, nothern central,
    south)

Source
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National Longitudinal Survey (NLS Youth Sample).

Vella, F. and M. Verbeek (1998) “Whose wages do unions raise ? A dynamic
model of unionism and wage”, *Journal of Applied Econometrics*, **13**,
163–183.

References
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Verbeek, Marno (2004) *A guide to modern econometrics*, John Wiley and
Sons,
`http://www.econ.kuleuven.ac.be/GME <http://www.econ.kuleuven.ac.be/GME>`_,
chapter 10.

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive :
`http://jae.wiley.com/jae/ <http://jae.wiley.com/jae/>`_.

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

``Index.Time.Series``
