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 4 Regression results for the specification with lagged dependent variable as 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	−0.005	−0.035	0.041	−0.003	−0.051	0.064	−0.057	−0.001	−0.003	−0.006
	(0.044)	(0.058)	(0.039)	(0.040)	(0.088)	(0.094)	(0.046)	(0.045)	(0.073)	(0.067)
R ²	0.124	0.227	0.089	0.074	0.224	0.197	0.101	0.012	0.168	0.032
H0: fraction affected[FORMAL] = fraction affected[INFORM], p value = 0.379
Panel B: regions with federal minimum wage, N = 68
Fraction affected	0.054	0.057	0.022	−0.049	0.024	−0.084	0.006	−0.053	−0.024	−0.053
	(0.075)	(0.097)	(0.069)	(0.090)	(0.131)	(0.160)	(0.097)	(0.095)	(0.124)	(0.147)
R ²	0.165	0.249	0.076	0.074	0.226	0.203	0.117	0.014	0.165	0.028
H0: fraction affected[FORMAL] = fraction affected[INFORM], p value = 0.811
Panel C: regions with own minimum wage, N = 17
Fraction affected	−0.108**	−0.195*	0.076	−0.003	−0.226	0.233	−0.130**	−0.035	−0.157	0.004
	(0.048)	(0.099)	(0.065)	(0.028)	(0.149)	(0.140)	(0.045)	(0.044)	(0.112)	(0.071)
R ²	0.136	0.278	0.162	0.185	0.348	0.261	0.162	0.215	0.387	0.173
H0: fraction affected[FORMAL] = fraction affected[INFORM], p value = 0.040
Panel D: Northern regions are dropped, N = 60
Fraction affected	0.014	−0.017	0.016	0.036	−0.131	0.186**	−0.001	0.029	0.003	0.083
	(0.048)	(0.059)	(0.041)	(0.037)	(0.085)	(0.090)	(0.046)	(0.045)	(0.068)	(0.062)
R ²	0.037	0.305	0.145	0.018	0.171	0.144	0.025	0.002	0.102	0.019
H0: fraction affected[FORMAL] = fraction affected[INFORM], p value = 0.711
Panel E: regressions with weights, N = 85
Fraction affected	−0.021	−0.077	0.062*	0.012	−0.143**	0.082	−0.066*	0.020	−0.003	−0.006
	(0.038)	(0.054)	(0.035)	(0.030)	(0.069)	(0.082)	(0.039)	(0.031)	(0.056)	(0.052)
R ²	0.164	0.075	0.042	0.125	0.249	0.236	0.221	0.061	0.248	0.108
H0: fraction affected[FORMAL] = fraction affected[INFORM], p value = 0.071

Note: The coefficients on the control variables are not shown. Standard errors are in parentheses
*p < 0.10; **p < 0.05; ***p < 0.01

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