uswages: Weekly wages of US male workers in 1988

In gschofl/coursedata: Data supporting Introductory and Statistical Data Analysis with R.

Description

The uswages data frame contains data on weekly Wages for US male workers sampled from the Current Population Survey in 1988.

Usage

uswages

Format

A data frame with 2000 rows and 10 columns:

wage

Real weekly wages in dollars (deflated by personal consumption expenditures - 1992 base year)

educ

Years of education

exper

Years of experience

race

1 if Black, 0 if White (other races not in sample)

smsa

1 if living in Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, 0 if not

ne

1 if living in the North East

mw

1 if living in the Midwest

we

1 if living in the West

so

1 if living in the South

pt

1 if working part time, 0 if not

Source

Bierens, H.J., and D. Ginther (2001): "Integrated Conditional Moment Testing of Quantile Regression Models", Empirical Economics 26, 307-324

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