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Table 4 Differenced Employment Equations for the Restaurant-and-Bar Sector, 1990/1996–2014

From: On the robustness of minimum wage effects: geographically-disparate trends and job growth equations

Time period

1990–2014

1996–2014

Difference length

1 quarter

1 quarter

1 quarter

1 year

4 years

6 years

Log (Minimum wage)

0.004 (0.003)

−0.002 (0.019)

0.005 (0.020)

0.001 (0.009)

−0.011 (0.022)

−0.007 (0.031)

Specification of MW

Levels

Differenced

Differenced

Differenced

Differenced

Differenced

  1. Notes: See Notes to Table 1. All specifications include the change in the local unemployment rate and log county population as controls, along with region/quarter fixed effects and county fixed effects. In the “levels” equation, the dependent variable is first-differenced, but the minimum wage variable is measured in levels. In the differenced equations, all variables are differenced over the same stated period. Sample size is 153,648 in the first two columns, and 117,952 in the other columns