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

Table 5 Difference-in-difference estimates for OLS regression (exposure risk)

Control	Treatment	Log hours worked
Control	Treatment		Very high	high	medium	low
A. Pre-treatment period: 2014, 6 ~ 7
15–49	Over 50	Treated × post	-0.0140^b (0.0008)	-0.0522^b (0.0007)	-0.0176^b (0.0006)	-0.0181^b (0.0002)
30–49	Over 50	Treated × post	-0.0215^b (0.0009)	-0.0550^b (0.0006)	-0.0091^b (0.0007)	-0.0139^b (0.0002)
15–29	Over 50	Treated × post	-0.0067^b (0.0009)	-0.0421^b (0.0009)	-0.0448^b (0.0011)	-0.0324^b (0.0004)
B. Differential time trends control
15–49	Over 50	Treated × post	-0.0874^b (0.0010)	-0.0535^b (0.0008)	-0.0191^b (0.0008)	-0.0177^b (0.0003)
		post	0.0246^b (0.0003)	0.0279^b (0.0004)	0.0034^b (0.0004)	0.0095^b (0.0001)
30–49	Over 50	Treated × post	-0.0903^b (0.0011)	-0.0390^b (0.0007)	-0.0084^b (0.0008)	-0.0146^b (0.0003)
		post	0.0278^b (0.0004)	0.0096^b (0.0004)	-0.0088 (0.0005)	0.0061^b (0.0003)
15–29	Over 50	Treated × post	-0.0783^b (0.0011)	-0.0695^b (0.0010)	-0.0543^b (0.0013)	-0.0274^b (0.0004)
		post	0.0203^b (0.0005)	0.0465^b (0.0006)	0.0392^b (0.0010)	0.0195^b (0.0004)

^a and ^b indicate that the estimate is significant at the 0.05 and 0.01 levels, respectively. Standard errors are reported in parentheses

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