Earnings, productivity and hours (macro).
data("earns")
A data frame with 41 observations.
1947 to 1987
avg. real weekly earnings
avg. weekly hours
output per labor hour
Jeffrey M. Wooldrige (2006): Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, 3rd ed., Thomson South-Western.
Collected from the Economic Report of the President, 1989, Table B-47. The data are for the non-farm business sector.
These data could be usefully updated, but changes in reporting conventions in more recent ERPs may make that difficult.