The effect of doubling the minimum wage on employment: evidence from Russia

Muravyev, Alexander; Oshchepkov, Aleksey

doi:10.1186/s40175-016-0051-0

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 3 Regression results for the most parsimonious specification without control variables

From: The effect of doubling the minimum wage on employment: evidence from Russia

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)	(10)
	EMPLOY	FORMAL	INFORM	UNEMPL	YOUT_E	YOUT_U	FEM_E	FEM_U	LOW_E	LOW_U
Panel A: all regions, N = 85
Fraction affected	0.000	−0.050	0.049	−0.010	−0.088	0.069	−0.062	−0.003	0.025	−0.021
	(0.052)	(0.057)	(0.038)	(0.043)	(0.100)	(0.113)	(0.052)	(0.046)	(0.089)	(0.070)
R ²	0.000	0.005	0.015	0.000	0.012	0.004	0.010	0.000	0.001	0.000
H0: fraction affected[FORMAL] = fraction affected[INFORM], p value = 0.224
Panel B: regions with federal minimum wage, N = 68
Fraction affected	0.057	0.015	0.037	−0.076	0.006	−0.133	−0.029	−0.058	0.003	−0.083
	(0.089)	(0.107)	(0.070)	(0.088)	(0.147)	(0.184)	(0.096)	(0.094)	(0.145)	(0.146)
R ²	0.006	0.000	0.005	0.010	0.000	0.008	0.001	0.005	0.000	0.004
H0: fraction affected[FORMAL] = fraction affected[INFORM], p value = 0.887
Panel C: regions with own minimum wage, N = 17
Fraction affected	−0.097	−0.203**	0.106*	0.003	−0.291*	0.295**	−0.121	−0.027	−0.043	0.007
	(0.075)	(0.088)	(0.054)	(0.029)	(0.153)	(0.133)	(0.072)	(0.045)	(0.125)	(0.065)
R ²	0.122	0.215	0.115	0.001	0.212	0.209	0.155	0.021	0.008	0.000
H0: fraction affected[FORMAL] = fraction affected[INFORM], p value = 0.011
Panel D: Northern regions are dropped, N = 60
Fraction affected	0.022	−0.005	0.024	0.031	−0.161*	0.181*	0.004	0.029	0.030	0.050
	(0.049)	(0.057)	(0.041)	(0.040)	(0.090)	(0.094)	(0.049)	(0.046)	(0.076)	(0.075)
R ²	0.001	0.000	0.003	0.002	0.047	0.023	0.000	0.002	0.002	0.002
H0: fraction affected[FORMAL] = fraction affected[INFORM], p value = 0.736
Panel E: regressions with weights, N = 85
Fraction affected	−0.021	−0.082*	0.063*	0.010	−0.153*	0.095	−0.073	0.023	0.045	−0.025
	(0.044)	(0.047)	(0.036)	(0.033)	(0.080)	(0.092)	(0.048)	(0.033)	(0.072)	(0.061)
R ²	0.003	0.030	0.040	0.001	0.068	0.014	0.026	0.003	0.006	0.001
H0: fraction affected[FORMAL] = fraction affected[INFORM], p value = 0.039

Note: Standard errors are in parentheses
*p < 0.10; **p < 0.05; ***p < 0.01

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