Tricia Gladden and Christopher Taber, "The Relationship Between Wage Growth and Wage Levels", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 25, No. 6, 2009, pp. 914-932. The data comes from the NLSY79. We include 4 files. The 4 files are w0wd_act.txt w0wd_pot.txt w0wt_act.txt w0wt_pot.txt These are all space dilineated ASCII files in DOS format. The four files are zipped in the file gt-data.zip. Unix/Linux users should use "unzip -a". The content of each file is as follows: "wowd_act.txt" NLSY Identification Code Initial Wage Wage Difference/(acual experience difference) years between wages in difference year of potential experience actual experience "wowd_pot.txt" NLSY Identification Code Initial Wage Wage Difference years between wages in difference year of potential experience "w0wt_act.txt" NLSY Identification Code Initial Wage Wage at time Potential Experience Year of Potential Experience "w0wt_pot.txt" NLSY Identification Code Initial Wage Wage at time Actual Experience Year of potential experience