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 euro
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 11.05062 4.450513 2.190978 47.57552
lnwage | 1472 2.334394 .3625349 .7843481 3.862319
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: 1 Euro is 40.3399 Belgian francs.