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A sample of the the Merged Outgoing Rotation Group of the Current Population Survey from 1983 to 1985 and 2003 to 2005, respectively, used as example by Fortin, Lemieux & Firpo (2011) in their handbook chapter. The data set contains a selection of 8 variables and a sample of 40,347 observations of male workers (i.e., a tenth of the origninal data set).
men8305
A data frame with 40,347 rows and 8 variables.
Hourly wage in US dollars at constant prices
Union status indicator
Factor variable with 6 education levels: high-school graduates (reference), elementary, high-school dropouts , some college, college graduates, post college graduates
Factor variable with 9 potential experience levels, each of five years gap, 20 to 24 years as reference level)
Married indicator
Non-white indicator
Indicator distinguishing pooled observations from the 1983 to 1985 period and those from 2003 to 2005
CPS sample weights
Fortin, Nicole M., Thomas Lemieux, and Firpo Segio. 2011. "Decomposition Methods in Economics." In Orley Ashenfelter and David Card, eds., Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 4a., Chapter 1, 1-102.
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