SwissLabor: Swiss Labor Market Participation Data
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SwissLabor

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Swiss Labor Market Participation Data

Description

Cross-section data originating from the health survey SOMIPOPS for Switzerland in 1981.

Usage

data("SwissLabor")

Format

A data frame containing 872 observations on 7 variables.

participation: Factor. Did the individual participate in the labor force?
income: Logarithm of nonlabor income.
age: Age in decades (years divided by 10).
education: Years of formal education.
youngkids: Number of young children (under 7 years of age).
oldkids: Number of older children (over 7 years of age).
foreign: Factor. Is the individual a foreigner (i.e., not Swiss)?

Source

Journal of Applied Econometrics Data Archive.

http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1996-v11.3/gerfin/

References

Gerfin, M. (1996). Parametric and Semi-Parametric Estimation of the Binary Response Model of Labour Market Participation. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 11, 321–339.

Examples

data("SwissLabor")

### Gerfin (1996), Table I.
fm_probit <- glm(participation ~ . + I(age^2), data = SwissLabor,
  family = binomial(link = "probit"))
summary(fm_probit)

### alternatively
fm_logit <- glm(participation ~ . + I(age^2), data = SwissLabor,
  family = binomial)
summary(fm_logit)

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