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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

*total number of observations* : 4360

*observation* : individuals

*country* : United States

Usage
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::

    data(Males)

Format
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A data frame containing :

nr
    identifier

year
    year

school
    years of schooling

exper
    years of experience (computed as ``age-6-school``)

union
    wage set by collective bargaining ?

ethn
    a factor with levels ``black, hisp, other``

married
    married?

health
    health 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, northern central, south``

Source
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Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive

`http://www.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1998-v13.2/vella-verbeek/ <http://www.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1998-v13.2/vella-verbeek/>`_.

References
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Vella, F. and M. Verbeek (1998) “Whose Wages Do Unions Raise? A Dynamic
Model of Unionism and Wage Rate Determination for Young Men”, *Journal
of Applied Econometrics*, **13**\ (2), 163–183.

Verbeek, M. (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.
