Zvi Eckstein, Suqin Ge, and Barbara Petrongolo, "Job and Wage Mobility 
with Minimum Wages and Imperfect Compliance", Journal of Applied 
Econometrics, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2011, pp. 580-612.

The empirical analysis in this paper uses the National Longitudinal Survey
of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). The data are publicly available at 

   http://www.bls.gov/nls/.

The minimum wage data are publicly available from Department of Labor
website:

   http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/chart.htm.

There are three data files used in the simulation and estimation of the job
search model: (1) STATES.TXT, (2) REALWAGE.TXT, and (3) RMINWAGE.TXT. All
data sets are individual level panel data. All of them are ASCII files in
DOS format, which are zipped in the file egp-data.zip.

For STATES.TXT:

Number of observations (rows): 577
Number of variables (columns): 216

Each variable (column) is the monthly labor market state of the individual
since high school graduation:
	0 	nonemployed
	1	first job after high school graduation
	2	second job after high school graduation
	??
	-9	missing value

For REALWAGE.TXT

Number of observations (rows): 577
Number of variables (columns): 216

Each variable (column) is the monthly real hourly wage of the individual
since high school graduation. If the wage is not observed, -9 is used for
missing value.
	
For RMINWAGE.TXT

Number of observations (rows): 577
Number of variables (columns): 216

Each variable (column) is the real minimum wage the individual was subject
to in that particular month.