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Table 5 Robustness checks: regression results ā€ social spending

From: Underreporting of earnings and the minimum wage spike

Ā 

3

4

5

6

7

Informality

0.67***

0.79**

1.26***

0.68***

0.46**

MW/AW

0.47**

0.39*

0.42**

0.42**

0.43**

spallp

0.01*

0.01

0.01

0.01

0.01

Informality

0.57**

0.73**

1.13**

0.60**

0.38**

MW/AW

0.48**

0.41*

0.44**

0.44**

0.44*

spallg

1.83

1.06

2.05

1.86

0.88

Informality

0.60***

0.73**

1.14***

0.62**

0.43**

MW/AW

0.45**

0.39*

0.41**

0.41*

0.42*

unbp

0.01

0.01

0.01

0.01

0.01

Informality

0.54**

0.70**

1.05**

0.56**

0.38**

MW/AW

0.46**

0.41*

0.42**

0.42**

0.43*

unbg

1.89

0.94

1.99

1.88

1.16

Informality

0.45**

0.62**

0.88**

0.47**

0.34**

MW/AW

0.47**

0.42*

0.44**

0.44**

0.45**

placep

ā€0.13

ā€0.13

ā€0.14

ā€0.13

ā€0.15

Informality

0.51**

0.67**

0.98**

0.52**

0.38**

MW/AW

0.51**

0.44**

0.48**

0.47**

0.48**

placeg

ā€34.29

ā€21.42

ā€34.57

ā€30.61

ā€32.51

Informality

0.46**

0.63*

0.90**

0.48**

0.33*

MW/AW

0.46*

0.40*

0.43*

0.42*

0.41*

vocap

ā€0.01

ā€0.02

ā€0.01

ā€0.01

ā€0.04

Informality

0.45**

0.63*

0.88**

0.47**

0.34**

MW/AW

0.43*

0.39*

0.41*

0.41*

0.39*

vocag

ā€7.61

ā€7.2

ā€7.18

ā€7.26

ā€13.84

  1. See variable list for definitions. Footnotes a, b, c, e in Table2 apply also here. OLS estimation. All regressions include a constant. Sample size is 18.