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Table 6 Earnings Elasticities for the Restaurant-and-Bar Sector 1990–2014, Various Detrending Methods

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

  

Order of Polynomial

 

No trends

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

Log (Minimum wage)

0.222*** (0.022)

0.171*** (0.021)

0.170*** (0.021)

0.150*** (0.013)

0.152*** (0.012)

0.131** (0.016)

  

Post-1993 Trends

Peak-to-Peak Trends

H-P Filter Trends

Peak-to-Peak, 2000–2015

 

Log (Minimum wage)

 

0.166*** (0.022)

0.146*** (0.052)

0.125** (0.014)

0.148** (0.064)

 
  1. Notes: The dependent variable in all models is the average weekly earnings of workers in the restaurant-and-bar sector. See Notes to Table 3 for other details