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Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market - WP 04/03

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Figure 4 – Wage and Salary Employment and Hours Worked
Figure 4 – Wage and Salary Employment and Hours Worked.
Figure 5 – Studying, Unemployment and Inactivity
Figure 5 – Studying, Unemployment and Inactivity.
Figure 6 – Benefits, Weekly Labour Earnings and Total Income
Figure 6 – Benefits, Weekly Labour Earnings and Total Income.
Table A1 – Sample Characteristics of HLFS Non-Proxy and Proxy Responses
  16-17 Year-Olds 18-19 Year-Olds 20-25 Year-Olds
  1997-2000 2001-2003 1997-2000 2001-2003 1997-2000 2001-2003
  Non Proxy Non Proxy Non Proxy Non Proxy Non Proxy Non Proxy
Age 16.49 16.47 16.50 16.47 18.53 18.47 18.52 18.45 22.54 22.33 22.46 22.20
(0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.02) (0.01) (0.02)
Female 0.49 0.46 0.49 0.45 0.54 0.44 0.52 0.44 0.53 0.42 0.52 0.41
(0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (.003) (.004) (.004) (0.01)
Married 0.02 0.01 0.03 0.02 0.08 0.04 0.09 0.04 0.29 0.24 0.29 0.24
(.002) (.001) (.002) (.002) (.003) (.003) (.004) (.004) (.003) (.004) (.003) (0.01)
New Zealand Born 0.84 0.86 0.82 0.85 0.83 0.84 0.80 0.81 0.86 0.84 0.81 0.79
(.004) (.004) (0.01) (.005) (.004) (.005) (0.01) (0.01) (.002) (.003) (.003) (.005)
Pakeha 0.68 0.68 0.62 0.66 0.67 0.67 0.64 0.65 0.71 0.67 0.65 0.63
(.005) (.005) (0.01) (0.01) (.005) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (.003) (.004) (.003) (0.01)
Maori 0.15 0.17 0.17 0.16 0.16 0.16 0.15 0.14 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.13
(.004) (.004) (.005) (.005) (.004) (.005) (.005) (0.01) (.002) (.003) (.003) (.004)
Pacific Islander 0.07 0.06 0.08 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.08 0.06 0.08 0.07 0.10
(.003) (.003) (.003) (.003) (.003) (.003) (.003) (.005) (.001) (.002) (.002) (.004)
Asian 0.05 0.05 0.08 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.08 0.08 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.09
(.002) (.002) (.004) (.003) (.002) (.003) (.004) (.005) (.001) (.002) (.002) (.003)
Wage or Salary Worker 0.43 0.42 0.44 0.43 0.52 0.60 0.54 0.59 0.63 0.70 0.64 0.70
(0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (.003) (.004) (.003) (0.01)
Hours worked Last week 17.25 17.49 19.03 18.30 27.93 28.99 28.30 28.49 33.96 35.28 33.45 35.39
(0.26) (0.25) (0.32) (0.32) (0.25) (0.28) (0.30) (0.37) (0.12) (0.17) (0.15) (0.22)
Studying 0.73 0.76 0.71 0.75 0.30 0.30 0.31 0.33 0.12 0.12 0.15 0.16
(.005) (.004) (0.01) (0.01) (.005) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) (.002) (.003) (.003) (.004)
Unemployment 0.10 0.07 0.09 0.07 0.13 0.09 0.10 0.07 0.09 0.07 0.06 0.05
(.003) (.003) (.004) (.003) (.003) (.004) (.004) (.004) (.002) (.002) (.002) (.003)
Inactive 0.10 0.08 0.09 0.07 0.21 0.15 0.17 0.13 0.22 0.16 0.18 0.13
(.003) (.003) (.004) (.003) (.004) (.005) (.005) (0.01) (.002) (.003) (.003) (.004)
Observations 8,802 9,247 5,782 5,334 9,301 6,101 6,038 3,412 32,176 12,526 19,902 6,865

Notes: Estimated standard errors controlling for Primary Sampling Unit (PSU) cluster in parentheses. All summary statistics are weighted by the HLFS sampling weights.

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