Matching worker skills to job tasks in the Netherlands: sorting into cities for better careers

Kok, Suzanne

doi:10.1186/2193-9012-3-2

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Table 5 Matching is better in cities

From: Matching worker skills to job tasks in the Netherlands: sorting into cities for better careers

	Match quality
	All skills				Cognitive skills				Social skills
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)	(10)	(11)	(12)
City	0.146***	0.146***	0.136***	0.104***	0.095*	0.095*	0.093*	0.060	0.014	0.014	0.015	-0.027
	[0.040]	[0.032]	[0.029]	[0.035]	[0.050]	[0.048]	[0.048]	[0.043]	[0.051]	[0.052]	[0.051]	[0.054]
Age	0.010***	0.010***	0.007**	0.007**	-0.001	-0.001	-0.001	-0.003	-0.001	-0.001	-0.000	0.000
	[0.002]	[0.003]	[0.003]	[0.003]	[0.002]	[0.002]	[0.003]	[0.003]	[0.003]	[0.003]	[0.003]	[0.002]
Female	-0.075*	-0.075	-0.045	-0.046	-0.114**	-0.114**	-0.088	-0.006	-0.034	-0.034	0.006	-0.062
	[0.040]	[0.054]	[0.055]	[0.057]	[0.050]	[0.046]	[0.053]	[0.053]	[0.051]	[0.046]	[0.048]	[0.047]
Native	0.171**	0.171***	0.150**	0.174***	-0.099	-0.099	-0.090	-0.091	-0.169*	-0.169	-0.166	-0.115
	[0.079]	[0.061]	[0.060]	[0.060]	[0.100]	[0.117]	[0.119]	[0.109]	[0.098]	[0.107]	[0.108]	[0.092]
Medium skilled	0.151***	0.151***	0.075	0.088	0.012	0.012	-0.019	-0.052	-0.080	-0.080	-0.052	-0.062
	[0.059]	[0.055]	[0.053]	[0.056]	[0.063]	[0.061]	[0.063]	[0.058]	[0.068]	[0.059]	[0.064]	[0.059]
High skilled	0.421***	0.421***	0.211***	0.204**	0.226***	0.226***	0.151**	0.020	-0.002	-0.002	-0.013	-0.032
	[0.054]	[0.057]	[0.071]	[0.074]	[0.066]	[0.066]	[0.067]	[0.068]	[0.070]	[0.065]	[0.072]	[0.082]
Cognitive skills				0.079***				0.279***				-0.022
				[0.018]				[0.038]				[0.036]
Social skills				0.046**				-0.033				0.336***
				[0.019]				[0.025]				[0.052]
Constant	-0.761***	-0.761***	-0.537**	-0.534**	0.160	0.160	0.176	0.211	0.268	0.268	0.182	0.242
	[0.144]	[0.213]	[0.221]	[0.231]	[0.171]	[0.176]	[0.187]	[0.187]	[0.184]	[0.205]	[0.219]	[0.215]
Clustered standard errors		Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes
Fixed effects			Yes	Yes			Yes	Yes			Yes	Yes
Observations	2,373	2,373	2,373	2,149	1,596	1,596	1,596	1,596	1,596	1,596	1,596	1,596
Adjusted R-squared	0.053	0.053	0.017	0.027	0.016	0.016	0.007	0.074	0.001	0.001	-0.001	0.101

Note: the definitions and measurement of the variables are displayed in Table 14 in Appendix A. Robust or clustered standard errors are in parentheses. Fixed effects refer to those at the two-digit occupational level (ISCO codes).

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