nls: Permanent wage growth in two cohorts of the NLS

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Permanent wage growth in two cohorts of the NLS

Description

These data are from two cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) initiated in 1966 and 1979. The cohorts are referred to as the ‘original’ and the ‘recent’ cohort, respectively. The data represents the permanent wage growth of each individual in the cohort from age 16 through 36. This was used in Handcock and Morris (1999) and Bernhardt, Morris, Handcock and Scott (2001) to study the question of wage mobility. A development of the estimation of these permanent wages and their relevance to the study of wage mobility is given in Handcock and Morris (1999). For the purposes of this reldist package, we can regard the permanent wages as measurements on two groups that we wish to compare.

The data set is comprised of two data.frames called ‘original’ and ‘recent’. Each has three columns: chpermwage: the change in permanent wages (in log-dollars), endeduc: the final achieved educational level (in years), and wgt: the sample weight.

Usage

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Source

Relative Distribution Methods in the Social Sciences, by Mark S. Handcock and Martina Morris, Springer-Verlag, Inc., New York, 1999. ISBN 0387987789.

References

Relative Distribution Methods in the Social Sciences, by Mark S. Handcock and Martina Morris, Springer-Verlag, Inc., New York, 1999. ISBN 0387987789.

Divergent Paths: Economic Mobility in the New American Labor Market, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, June 2001 Annette D. Bernhardt, Martina Morris, Mark S. Handcock and Marc Scott.

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