R/minwage.R

In jrnold/qss-data: Data and Code for "Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction"

#' Minimum Wage Study Data
#'
#' Data set used to investigate the effect of a minimum wage increase on full-time employment.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 358 rows and 8 variables:
#' \describe{
#'  \item{ chain }{ character: name of the fast-food restaurant chain }
#'  \item{ location }{ character: location of the restaurants (centralNJ, northNJ, PA, shoreNJ, southNJ) }
#'  \item{ wageBefore }{ numeric: wage before the minimum-wage increase }
#'  \item{ wageAfter }{ numeric: wage after the minimum-wage increase }
#'  \item{ fullBefore }{ numeric: number of full-time employees before the minimum-wage increase }
#'  \item{ fullAfter }{ numeric: number of full-time employees after the minimum-wage increase }
#'  \item{ partBefore }{ numeric: number of part-time employees before the minimum-wage increase }
#'  \item{ partAfter }{ numeric: number of part-time employees after the minimum-wage increase }
#' }
#'
#'
#' @details
#' See \emph{QSS} Table 2.5.
#'
#'
#' @references
#' \itemize{
#' \item{ Imai, Kosuke. 2017. \emph{Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction}.
#' Princeton University Press. \href{http://press.princeton.edu/titles/11025.html}{URL}. }
#' \item {David Card and Alan Krueger (1994) “Minimum wages and employment: A case study of the
#' fast-food industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.” \emph{American Economic Review}, vol. 84,
#' no. 4, pp. 772–793 doi: 10.3386/w4509 }
#'}
#'
"minwage"