From: Are migrants in large cities underpaid? Evidence from Vietnam
Explanatory variables | Probit: dependent variable is “overall migration” | Probit: dependent variable is “short-term migration” | OLS: dependent variable is “log of monthly wages” | OLS: dependent variable is “log of monthly wages” |
---|---|---|---|---|
Migration (migrant = 1, non-migrant = 0) | 0.0164 | |||
[0.0248] | ||||
Short-term migration (short-term migrant = 1, other individuals = 0) | −0.029 | |||
[0.0314] | ||||
Age | −0.0589*** | −0.0605*** | 0.0698*** | 0.0686*** |
[0.0069] | [0.0108] | [0.0090] | [0.0091] | |
Age squared | −0.0009*** | −0.0009*** | ||
[0.0001] | [0.0001] | |||
Sex (male = 1; female = 0) | −0.1471 | −0.0876 | 0.2201*** | 0.2198*** |
[0.1048] | [0.1513] | [0.0232] | [0.0232] | |
Never married (yes = 1) | 0.2734** | 0.6248*** | −0.1098*** | −0.1084*** |
[0.1228] | [0.1733] | [0.0286] | [0.0285] | |
Urban (urban = 1; rural = 0) | 0.5531*** | 0.3824** | 0.0919*** | 0.0944*** |
[0.1286] | [0.1919] | [0.0230] | [0.0225] | |
Hanoi (yes = 1) | 0.0323 | 0.8329*** | −0.0800*** | −0.0786*** |
[0.1111] | [0.1883] | [0.0237] | [0.0238] | |
No degree | Reference | |||
Primary | −0.0928 | 0.1652 | 0.067 | 0.0678 |
[0.2709] | [0.3499] | [0.0601] | [0.0599] | |
Lower secondary | −0.4352* | −0.2894 | 0.1566*** | 0.1548*** |
[0.2484] | [0.3346] | [0.0562] | [0.0562] | |
Upper secondary | −1.1291*** | −1.1008*** | 0.3288*** | 0.3232*** |
[0.2581] | [0.3682] | [0.0572] | [0.0574] | |
Post secondary | −1.9677*** | −2.6512*** | 0.9042*** | 0.8957*** |
[0.2651] | [0.4136] | [0.0615] | [0.0616] | |
Constant | 1.3528*** | −0.7005 | 6.1532*** | 6.1869*** |
[0.3425] | [0.5561] | [0.1647] | [0.1661] | |
Observations | 3778 | 3778 | 3778 | 3778 |
R-squared | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.40 | 0.40 |