The BWAGES files contain 1472 observations taken from the 1994 wave of the Belgian part of the European Community Household Panel. 

Variable list:

wage lnwage educ exper lnexper lneduc male

Labels:

wage: gross hourly wage rate in Bef
lnwage: ln(wage)
educ: education level from 1 [low] to 5 [high]
exper: years of experience
lnexper: ln(1+exper)
lneduc: ln(educ)
male: dummy, 1 if male

Sample statistics:

Variable |     Obs        Mean   Std. Dev.       Min        Max                 
---------+-----------------------------------------------------                 
    wage |    1472    445.7807   179.5332   88.38383   1919.192                 
  lnwage |    1472    6.031735   .3625349   4.481689   7.559659                 
    educ |    1472    3.378397   1.204522          1          5                 
   exper |    1472    17.21739   10.16667          0         47                 
 lnexper |    1472    2.690671   .7292168          0   3.871201                 
  lneduc |    1472    1.136519   .4339715          0   1.609438                 
    male |    1472    .6066576   .4886577          0          1  


Note: 40 Bef is approx. 1 Euro.

26/10/1998

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