Minimum wage regulation in Switzerland: survey evidence for restaurants in the canton of Neuchâtel

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Table 10 Changes in employment for control and treatment groups by wage bin

		Control group				Treatment group: Neuchâtel				Counterfactual	Treatment
		Pre-treatment		Post-treatment		Pre-treatment		Post-treatment		distribution	effect
Wage bin (CHF)		\(E^{k}_{{CTRL, pre}}\)	\(E^{k}_{{CTRL, pre}}\)	\(E^{k}_{{CTRL, post}}\)	\(E^{k}_{{CTRL, post}}\)	\(E^{k}_{{NE, pre}}\)	\(E^{k}_{{NE, pre}}\)	\(E^{k}_{{NE, post}}\)	\(E^{k}_{{NE, post}}\)	\(\tilde {e}^{k}_{{NE, post}}\)	ρ ^k
Spring 2018
–2	15.78-17.77	3	0.012	2	0.008	12	0.063	2	0.011	0.059	–0.049
–1	17.78–19.77	30	0.122	23	0.093	24	0.127	7	0.037	0.099	–0.061
0	19.78–21.77	67	0.272	70	0.285	52	0.275	71	0.376	0.287	0.088
1	21.78–23.77	47	0.191	49	0.199	35	0.185	27	0.143	0.193	–0.050
2	23.78–25.77	63	0.256	57	0.232	33	0.175	33	0.175	0.150	0.024
3	25.78-27.77	19	0.077	18	0.073	21	0.111	17	0.090	0.107	-0.017
4	27.78-31.77	5	0.020	8	0.033	10	0.053	10	0.053	0.065	–0.012
5	31.78+	12	0.049	12	0.049	2	0.011	2	0.011	0.011	0.000
Total		246	1.00	239	0.972	189	1	169	0.894	0.972	-0.077
Summer 2018
–2	15.78–17.77	3	0.012	2	0.008	12	0.063	2	0.011	0.059	–0.049
–1	17.78–19.77	30	0.122	29	0.118	24	0.127	9	0.048	0.123	–0.075
0	19.78–21.77	67	0.272	70	0.285	52	0.275	83	0.439	0.287	0.152
1	21.78–23.77	47	0.191	49	0.199	35	0.185	28	0.148	0.193	–0.045
2	23.78–25.77	63	0.256	59	0.240	33	0.175	39	0.206	0.158	0.048
3	25.78–27.77	19	0.077	19	0.077	21	0.111	20	0.106	0.111	–0.005
4	27.78–31.77	5	0.020	7	0.028	10	0.053	10	0.053	0.061	–0.008
5	31.78+	12	0.049	12	0.049	2	0.011	2	0.011	0.011	0.000
Total		246	1.00	247	1.00	189	1	193	1.021	1.004	0.017