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Table 6 Robustness checks: regression results ‐ taxes

From: Underreporting of earnings and the minimum wage spike

	3	4	5	6	7
Informality	0.45**	0.62**	0.88**	0.47**	0.34*
MW/AW	0.46**	0.42*	0.43**	0.43**	0.44*
lowwagetrap_s	‐0.03	‐0.04	‐0.02	‐0.03	‐0.02
Informality	0.49**	0.68**	0.96**	0.51**	0.38**
MW/AW	0.46**	0.41*	0.43**	0.43**	0.44*
lowwagetrap_c	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02
Informality	0.43**	0.59*	0.85**	0.45**	0.32*
MW/AW	0.40*	0.35	0.38*	0.37*	0.38*
unemptrap	0.08	0.09	0.10	0.09	0.09
Informality	0.51**	0.70**	0.95**	0.52**	0.36**
MW/AW	0.47**	0.42*	0.44**	0.44**	0.45**
tax1_50	‐0.06	‐0.05	‐0.03	‐0.05	‐0.01
Informality	0.48**	0.67**	0.92**	0.50**	0.35**
MW/AW	0.47**	0.42*	0.44**	0.44**	0.45**
tax1_67	0.00	0.00	0.04	0.02	0.05
Informality	0.48**	0.68**	0.93**	0.52**	0.35**
MW/AW	0.47**	0.42*	0.44**	0.44**	0.45**
tax1_67kids	‐0.01	‐0.01	0.00	‐0.02	0.02
Informality	0.50**	0.67**	0.93**	0.52**	0.36**
MW/AW	0.48**	0.42*	0.44**	0.45**	0.45*
tax2_100kids	‐0.02	0.00	0.00	‐0.02	0.00
Informality	0.50**	0.69**	0.94**	0.51**	0.37**
MW/AW	0.48**	0.42*	0.44**	0.44**	0.45**
tax2_130	‐0.11	‐0.1	‐0.06	‐0.08	‐0.08
Informality	0.48**	0.67**	0.93**	0.50**	0.36**
MW/AW	0.48**	0.43*	0.44**	0.44**	0.45**
tax2_200	‐0.05	‐0.06	0.00	‐0.02	‐0.04

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.

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