The impact of epidemics on labor market: identifying victims of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in the Korean labor market

Table 1 Difference-in-difference estimates for logistic and OLS regressions

Control	Treat		Unemployment status		Employed as temporary		Log hours worked
			Odds ratio		Odds ratio		Coefficient
			2014,6 ~ 7	2013,6 ~ 7	2014,6 ~ 7	2013,6 ~ 7	2014,6 ~ 7	2013,6 ~ 7
15–49	Over 50	Treated × post	1.1718^b (0.0030)	1.2466^b (0.0033)	1.0122^b (0.0013)	0.9834^b (0.0012)	-0.0188^b (0.0002)	-0.0171^b (0.0002)
	50s	Treated × post	1.1486^b (0.0034)	1.2763^b (0.0040)	1.0237^b (0.0015)	0.9840^b (0.0014)	-0.0227^b (0.0002)	-0.0164^b (0.0002)
30–49	Over 50	Treated × post	1.2069^b (0.0034)	1.3433^b (0.0039)	0.9795^b (0.0013)	0.9375^b (0.0012)	-0.0180^b (0.0002)	-0.0188^b (0.0002)
	50s	Treated × post	1.0948^b (0.0024)	1.2252^b (0.0028)	0.9472^b (0.0011)	0.9118^b (0.0011)	-0.0103^b (0.0002)	-0.0138^b (0.0002)
15–29	Over 50	Treated × post	1.1391^b (0.0031)	1.1537^b (0.0034)	1.0789^b (0.0017)	1.0746^b (0.0017)	-0.0210^b (0.0003)	-0.0149^b (0.0003)
	50s	Treated × post	1.1180^b (0.0035)	1.1830^b (0.0039)	1.0925^b (0.0019)	1.0722^b (0.0018)	-0.0253^b (0.0003)	-0.0138^b (0.0003)

^a and ^b indicate that the estimate is significant at the 0.05 and 0.01 levels, respectively. Standard errors are reported in parentheses. The reference group for the unemployment status is the employed and the reference group for the employed as temporary workers is the employed as permanent worker. Periods in the table are the pre-treatment period. The post-treatment period for all the analyses is June - July, 2015

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