From: Matching worker skills to job tasks in the Netherlands: sorting into cities for better careers
 |  | Crude | Low skilled | Medium skilled | High skilled | Countryside | City | ||||||
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 | Observations | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD |
 | Matching variables |  | |||||||||||
Matching all skills | 2,373 | 0.70 | (0.20) | -0.08 | (0.06) | 0.15 | (0.04) | 0.35 | (0.03) | 0.13 | (0.03) | 0.25 | (0.03) |
Cognitive skills & cognitive tasks | 1,596 | 0.93 | (0.75) | -0.12 | (0.05) | -0.09 | (0.04) | 0.14 | (0.04) | -0.06 | (0.03) | 0.07 | (0.04) |
Social skills & cognitive tasks | 1,596 | 1.00 | (0.75) | 0.06 | (0.06) | -0.05 | (0.04) | 0.03 | (0.04) | -0.01 | (0.03) | 0.01 | (0.04) |
 | Skill variables |  | |||||||||||
Investment in cognitive skills | 2,149 | 0.23 | (0.27) | -0.28 | (0.04) | -0.14 | (0.04) | 0.34 | (0.05) | -0.08 | (0.03) | 0.15 | (0.04) |
Investment in social skills | 2,149 | 0.18 | (0.23) | -0.07 | (0.05) | -0.04 | (0.04) | 0.10 | (0.04) | -0.08 | (0.03) | 0.10 | (0.04) |
 | Task variables |  | |||||||||||
Importance of cognitive tasks | 1,724 | 0.33 | (0.26) | -0.42 | (0.05) | -0.11 | (0.04) | 0.30 | (0.04) | -0.11 | (0.03) | 0.11 | (0.04) |
Importance of social tasks | 1,724 | 0.48 | (0.27) | -0.32 | (0.06) | -0.12 | (0.04) | 0.27 | (0.04) | -0.10 | (0.04) | 0.11 | (0.04) |