original               package:reldist               R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This data is from a cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey
     (NLS)  initiated in 1966.  This cohort is referred to as the
     `original' cohort. A second cohort initiated in 1979 is referred
     to as the `recent' cohort. 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 a data.frame with  three columns: 'chpermwage':
     the change in permanent wages  (in log-dollars), 'endeduc': the
     final achieved educational level (in years), and 'wgt': the sample
     weight.

_U_s_a_g_e:

      data(original)

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

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

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     _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.

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     recent, reldist

