Description

A panel of 545 observations from 1980 to 1987

Format

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

Details

total number of observations : 4360

observation : individuals

country : United States

Source

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1998-v13.2/vella-verbeek/.

References

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

Verbeek M (2004). A Guide to Modern Econometrics. Wiley.