nls                 package:reldist                 R Documentation

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

     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.frame's  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.

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

      data(nls)

_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:

     reldist

