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Table 4 Regression of wages with interaction between migration and migrants’ age

From: Are migrants in large cities underpaid? Evidence from Vietnam

Explanatory variables

OLS: dependent variable is “log of monthly wages”

OLS: dependent variable is “log of monthly wages”

OLS: dependent variable is “log of monthly wages”

OLS: dependent variable is “log of monthly wages”

Do not have registration book

0.2337***

0.5313**

  
 

[0.0834]

[0.2447]

  

Do not have registration book age*

−0.0073***

−0.0261*

  
 

[0.0026]

[0.0144]

  

Do not have registration book age squared*

 

0.0003

  
 

[0.0002]

  

Migration since 2008

  

0.1840**

0.5123**

   

[0.0813]

[0.2353]

Migration since 2008 age*

  

−0.0075***

−0.0304**

   

[0.0026]

[0.0151]

Migration since 2008 age squared*

   

0.0003

    

[0.0002]

Age

0.0740***

0.0780***

0.0697***

0.0711***

 

[0.0093]

[0.0110]

[0.0093]

[0.0097]

Age squared

−0.0009***

−0.0010***

−0.0009***

−0.0009***

 

[0.0001]

[0.0001]

[0.0001]

[0.0001]

Sex (male = 1; female = 0)

0.2122***

0.2136***

0.2141***

0.2149***

 

[0.0232]

[0.0231]

[0.0232]

[0.0232]

Never married (yes = 1)

−0.1106***

−0.1124***

−0.1092***

−0.1096***

 

[0.0283]

[0.0282]

[0.0282]

[0.0282]

Urban (urban = 1; rural = 0)

0.0843***

0.0823***

0.0913***

0.0903***

 

[0.0230]

[0.0232]

[0.0222]

[0.0223]

Hanoi (yes = 1)

−0.1099***

−0.1123***

−0.1070***

−0.1079***

 

[0.0236]

[0.0238]

[0.0237]

[0.0237]

No degree

Reference

   

Primary

0.0649

0.0649

0.0723

0.0712

 

[0.0591]

[0.0591]

[0.0596]

[0.0596]

Lower secondary

0.1453***

0.1477***

0.1534***

0.1523***

 

[0.0553]

[0.0551]

[0.0560]

[0.0561]

Upper secondary

0.3148***

0.3187***

0.3163***

0.3167***

 

[0.0563]

[0.0561]

[0.0572]

[0.0573]

Post secondary

0.8794***

0.8830***

0.8809***

0.8809***

 

[0.0606]

[0.0603]

[0.0615]

[0.0616]

Constant

6.0866***

6.0154***

6.1770***

6.1554***

 

[0.1727]

[0.1985]

[0.1693]

[0.1755]

Observations

3778

3778

3778

3778

R-squared

0.40

0.40

0.40

0.40

  1. Note: Non-migrants are individuals who have a registration book in Hanoi or HCMC. Migrants are individuals who do not have a registration book in the cities. Short-term migrants are migrants who have lived in the cities since 2008. Post-secondary education degrees include college, bachelor, and above. Robust standard errors in brackets (standard errors are corrected for sampling weights and cluster correlation)
  2. *Significant at 10 %; **significant at 5 %; ***significant at 1 %
  3. Source: Estimation from the 2009 UPS