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

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Table 7 Subjective measurement

	Measurement error proxy			Matching	Skills		Tasks
	Imp-eff	Effectiveness	Importance		Cognitive	Social	Cognitive	Social
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)
City	-0.003	0.082	0.079	0.105***	0.113**	0.125***	0.083	0.053
	[0.036]	[0.066]	[0.050]	[0.035]	[0.052]	[0.036]	[0.052]	[0.056]
Age	0.001	-0.001	0.000	0.007**	0.006**	-0.002	-0.004**	0.000
	[0.002]	[0.003]	[0.002]	[0.003]	[0.003]	[0.002]	[0.002]	[0.002]
Female	0.097**	0.011	0.175**	-0.047	-0.263***	0.185***	-0.277***	-0.130***
	[0.041]	[0.044]	[0.065]	[0.057]	[0.064]	[0.062]	[0.049]	[0.043]
Native	0.037	0.026	0.084	0.174***	-0.035	-0.155*	-0.023	0.062
	[0.068]	[0.058]	[0.112]	[0.060]	[0.081]	[0.090]	[0.070]	[0.061]
Medium skilled	0.015	0.042	0.071	0.088	0.122**	0.039	0.122**	0.067
	[0.045]	[0.060]	[0.060]	[0.056]	[0.050]	[0.065]	[0.047]	[0.058]
High skilled	-0.027	-0.104	-0.142*	0.204**	0.493***	0.080	0.372***	0.244***
	[0.060]	[0.070]	[0.072]	[0.074]	[0.083]	[0.075]	[0.065]	[0.084]
Cognitive skills	0.015	0.097***	0.123***	0.079***
	[0.028]	[0.023]	[0.037]	[0.018]
Social skills	-0.003	0.053*	0.042	0.046**
	[0.019]	[0.028]	[0.032]	[0.019]
Measurement error proxy				0.011	0.105***	0.078***	0.130***	0.133***
				[0.019]	[0.023]	[0.027]	[0.022]	[0.019]
Constant	-0.229*	-0.006	-0.357*	-0.532**	-0.133	-0.155	0.379**	-0.024
	[0.129]	[0.173]	[0.182]	[0.229]	[0.114]	[0.134]	[0.156]	[0.121]
Clustered standard errors	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Fixed effects	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Observations	2,149	1,556	1,556	2,149	1,556	1,556	1,683	1,683
Adjusted R-squared	-0.001	0.013	0.024	0.027	0.061	0.016	0.054	0.029

Note: the measurement error proxy is defined for the difference between the importance and effectiveness of tasks (label ‘imp-eff’), the effectiveness of task performance (label ‘effectiveness’) and the importance of tasks (label ‘importance’). Appendix B and Table 16 display the details of the measurement. Cognitive (social) skills refer to the number of cognitive (social) statements the respondent agrees with. The dependent variable ‘matching’ measures the matching quality of all skills. Cognitive (social) tasks refer to the number of cognitive (social) tasks the worker performs. The definitions and measurement of the variables are displayed in Table 14 in Appendix A. The Appendix displays the measurement of the proxy as well. Robust or clustered standard errors are in parentheses. Fixed effects refer to those at the two-digit occupational level (ISCO codes).