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Table 4 Employment effects of minimum wages on production workers in small firms by educational category

From: Do minimum wages affect employment? Evidence from the manufacturing sector in Indonesia

 

Dependent variable: Log (Employment of production workers)

 

Primary

Jr. Sr. High

High School

Bachelor

Log (Min. Wage)

−0.0855

−0.1957***

0.0233

0.0891

 

(0.0723)

(0.0552)

(0.2155)

(0.1978)

Log (Firm Age)

0.0940***

0.0691***

−0.2686***

−0.2768***

 

(0.0272)

(0.0202)

(0.0688)

(0.0779)

Foreign Share

−0.0008

0.0002

0.0032*

0.0012

 

(0.0010)

(0.0006)

(0.0017)

(0.0015)

Export Share

0.0003

0.0007***

−0.0001

0.0009

 

(0.0003)

(0.0002)

(0.0008)

(0.0007)

Govt. Share

0.0006

0.0013***

0.0001

−0.0004

 

(0.0006)

(0.0005)

(0.0014)

(0.0013)

Firm Fixed Effects

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Year Effects

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Number of Firms

16,360

19,036

3592

3087

Observations

35,634

40,865

5159

4502

R-squared

0.8622

0.8645

0.8953

0.9104

  1. Notes: The sample includes only small firms with non-zero production and non-production workers, small firms that continuously observed from year to year, and small firms observed more than once during the sample period. Small firms are firms which always have 150 or fewer workers. Data of workers’ educational composition are available in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 2006. Robust standard errors clustered by firm are reported in parentheses. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1