Audra J. Bowlus, Nicholas M. Kiefer, and George R. Neumann, "Estimation of Equilibrium Wage Distributions with Heterogeneity", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 10, Supplement, 1995, pp. S119-S132. Data file: contains one variable - real weekly wage (1982 dollars). 697 observations File is called bkn.dat. It is zipped. Source: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979-1988 For a detailed description of the data, refer to the above article as well as Kiefer and Neumann (1993) "Wage Dispersion with Homogeneity: The Empirical Equilibrium Search Model," in Bunzel, Jensen and Westergard-Nielsen, eds. Panel Data and Labour Market Dynamics, New York: North-Holland, 57-74.