WageData {panelr} | R Documentation |
These data come from the years 1976-1982 in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), with information about the demographics and earnings of 595 individuals.
WageData
A data frame with 4165 rows and 14 variables:
Unique identifier for each survey respondent
A number corresponding to each wave of the survey, 1 through 7
Weeks worked in the past year
Natural logarithm of earnings in the past year
Binary indicator whether respondent is a member of union (1 = union member)
Binary indicator for whether respondent is married (1 = married)
Binary indicator for whether respondent is a blue collar (= 0) or white collar (= 1) worker.
Binary indicator for whether respondent works in manufacturing (= 1)
Binary indicator for whether respondent lives in the South (= 1)
Binary indicator for whether respondent lives in a standard metropolitan area (SMSA; = 1)
Binary indicator for whether respondent is female (= 1)
Binary indicator for whether respondent is African-American (= 1)
Years of education
Years in the workforce.
These data are all over the place. This particular file was downloaded from Richard Williams at https://www3.nd.edu/~rwilliam/statafiles/wages.dta, though he doesn't claim ownership of these data.
The data were shared as a supplement to Baltagi (2005) at https://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi3e/data_sets.html.
They were also shared as a supplement to Greene (2008) at https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~wgreene/Text/Edition6/tablelist6.htm.
The data are also available in numerous other locations, including in
slightly different formats as Wages
in the plm
package and PSID7682
in the AER
package.