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Table 3 Match quality, skills, and job tasks by education group and location

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

 

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)

  1. Note: the definitions and measurement of the variables are displayed in Table 14 in Appendix A.