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Table 5 Enforcement of labor regulations and logarithm of hourly wages and percentiles of the distribution of the logarithm of hourly wages

From: Enforcement of labor market regulations: heterogeneous compliance and adjustment across gender

Dependent variable

Formal wage employees

Informal wage employees

Average

10th

50th

90th

Average

10th

50th

90th

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

Men

 Log(enforcement measure)

0.0465

0.0279

0.0126

0.0300

−0.0385

−0.0163

− 0.0282

−0.0315

[0.0218]**

[0.0102]***

[0.00623]**

[0.0117]**

[0.0461]

[0.0131]

[0.0150]*

[0.0118]***

 Observations

91,231

91,231

91,231

91,231

56,935

56,935

56,935

56,935

 R2

0.302

0.718

0.864

0.768

0.229

0.810

0.858

0.820

Women

 Log(enforcement measure)

−0.0844

−0.146

−0.115

−0.149

−0.252

− 0.249

−0.175

− 0.296

[0.0927]

[0.126]

[0.134]

[0.172]

[0.120]**

[0.181]

[0.0842]**

[0.184]

 Observations

59,919

59,919

59,919

59,919

23,987

23,987

23,987

23,987

 R2

0.341

0.650

0.835

0.685

0.220

0.773

0.809

0.692

Included controls:

 Individual characteristics

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

 Political business cycle variables

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

 Quality of institutions variable

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

 Development level variables

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

 Demand shocks variables

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

 Province fixed effects

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

 Sector fixed effects

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

 Year fixed effects

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

 Province-time trends

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

  1. Source: Own elaboration. Notes: IV estimations. Standard errors clustered at the province-sector level in brackets. Control variables defined as in Table 2
  2. Significant at ***1%, **5%, and *10%