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

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Table 8 City of residence

	Matching	Skills		Tasks		Commuters
		Cognitive	Social	Cognitive	Social	Matching
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
City of residence	0.024	0.139***	0.185***	-0.002	0.041	-0.130*
	[0.036]	[0.047]	[0.047]	[0.047]	[0.053]	[0.065]
Age	0.007**	0.006***	-0.002	-0.004**	0.000	0.001
	[0.003]	[0.002]	[0.002]	[0.002]	[0.002]	[0.004]
Female	-0.049	-0.245***	0.175***	-0.250***	-0.099**	-0.133
	[0.057]	[0.043]	[0.053]	[0.048]	[0.045]	[0.086]
Native	0.167***	-0.006	-0.133	-0.020	0.061	0.104
	[0.059]	[0.076]	[0.089]	[0.069]	[0.059]	[0.126]
Medium skilled	0.093	0.174***	-0.002	0.124**	0.073	-0.051
	[0.055]	[0.046]	[0.054]	[0.049]	[0.058]	[0.119]
High skilled	0.215***	0.524***	0.087	0.371***	0.239***	0.049
	[0.074]	[0.067]	[0.054]	[0.064]	[0.082]	[0.142]
Cognitive skills	0.081***
	[0.018]
Social skills	0.046**
	[0.019]
Constant	-0.494**	-0.215*	-0.176	0.386**	-0.067	0.187
	[0.224]	[0.110]	[0.133]	[0.157]	[0.108]	[0.278]
Clustered standard errors	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Fixed effects	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Observations	2,149	2,149	2,149	1,724	1,724	615
Adjusted R-squared	0.025	0.055	0.016	0.033	0.008	0.005

Note: 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. Commuters work in a city with a different density than the city they live in. The definitions and measurement of the variables are displayed in Table 14 in Appendix A. Clustered standard errors are in parentheses. Fixed effects refer to those at the two-digit occupational level (ISCO codes).