Dear Statalist,
I am using selmlog to estimate wage functions. The full sample is of
labour market participants.
For the multinomial logit part, I have five categories - 1.
unemployed, 2. contributing family workers, own account workers,
employers, 3. public employees 4. private formal employees 5. informal
employees.
I have wage data only for categories 3, 4 and 5. I want to estimate
wage functions for each of these. As suggested by Rafa de Hoyes in an
old Statapost (12 April 2006), I defined separate wage variables for
each of these wage categories.
w3 is the wage data for public employees. There are 3723 of them.
Now when I run the following model for the public sector, the eventual
wage equation ends up with only about 400 observations.
selmlog w3 $basefactors1, select(selmcat=$basefactors1 $selfactors) showmlogit
Can somebody please tell me why this is so?
BTW, I intend bootstrapping to fix the standard errors but will embark
on that time-consuming exercise once I sort out this problem.
Thank you in advance,
Ramani
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