Remittances and labor supply in post-conflict Tajikistan

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 7 Employment, remittances and conflict

	Panel A: Men						Panel B: Women
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)	(10)	(11)	(12)
Ln(total remittances from abroad & Tajikistan)	−0.015***	−0.010*					−0.008***	−0.002
Ln(total remittances from abroad & Tajikistan)	(0.003)	(0.005)					(0.003)	(0.004)
Conflict region*Ln(total remittances)	−0.009-							0.010**
Conflict region*Ln(total remittances)	(0.007)							(0.005)
Receives remittances (dummy)			−0.086***	−0.061**					−0.044***	−0.006
			(0.020)	(0.028)					(0.016)	(0.023)
Conflict region*Receives remittances				−0.048						−0.065**
Conflict region*Receives remittances				(0.039)						(0.030)
N of private remitters abroad					−0.081***	−0.035					−0.028	−0.001
N of private remitters abroad					(0.026)	(0.034)					(0.017)	(0.021)
N of private remitters in Tajikistan					−0.039**	−0.04					−0.032**	−0.009
N of private remitters in Tajikistan					(0.016)	(0.027)					(0.014)	(0.021)
Conflict region*N remitters abroad						−0.085*						−0.047
Conflict region*N remitters abroad						(0.047)						(0.032)
Conflict region*N remitters in Tajikistan						0.003						−0.035
Conflict region*N remitters in Tajikistan						(0.033)						(0.028)
N	6552	6552	6552	6552	6552	6552	7351	7351	7351	7351	7351	7351
R squared	0.20	0.20	0.20	0.20	0.20	0.20	0.11	0.11	0.11	0.11	0.11	0.11

OLS models. Dependent variable: employed in the last 14 days.
Notes: * significant at 10%; ** significant at 5%; *** significant at 1%. All regressions control for age, age squared, education level, non-wage income, household dependency ratio, indicators for being married, female household head and rural residence, and a constant term. All regressions include district-level fixed effects. Robust standard errors in parenthesis.
Source: as for Table 2.