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Table 9 Regional differences in the Netherlands

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

 

Matching

Skills

Tasks

   

Cognitive

Social

Cognitive

Social

Region

Randstad

Other region

Randstad

Other region

Randstad

Other region

Randstad

Other region

Randstad

Other region

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

City

0.104

0.142**

0.157**

0.121**

0.174***

0.012

0.017

0.133**

0.026

0.071

 

[0.093]

[0.056]

[0.076]

[0.058]

[0.060]

[0.055]

[0.099]

[0.055]

[0.100]

[0.068]

Age

0.009**

0.006

0.005

0.006**

-0.003

-0.001

-0.003

-0.005*

0.003

-0.001

 

[0.004]

[0.004]

[0.003]

[0.002]

[0.003]

[0.002]

[0.003]

[0.003]

[0.004]

[0.003]

Female

-0.000

-0.065

-0.310***

-0.210***

0.091

0.229***

-0.246***

-0.246***

-0.111

-0.098

 

[0.073]

[0.073]

[0.061]

[0.046]

[0.077]

[0.056]

[0.068]

[0.074]

[0.086]

[0.072]

Native

0.117

0.197***

-0.007

-0.007

-0.067

-0.200**

0.021

-0.090

0.071

-0.004

 

[0.080]

[0.071]

[0.093]

[0.077]

[0.131]

[0.092]

[0.089]

[0.109]

[0.065]

[0.107]

Medium skilled

0.281**

-0.015

0.143*

0.153**

-0.121

0.008

0.209**

0.075

-0.014

0.097

 

[0.114]

[0.069]

[0.081]

[0.062]

[0.108]

[0.062]

[0.078]

[0.067]

[0.108]

[0.060]

High skilled

0.262*

0.185***

0.515***

0.497***

-0.112

0.168**

0.328***

0.399***

0.025

0.327***

 

[0.138]

[0.066]

[0.082]

[0.104]

[0.101]

[0.069]

[0.106]

[0.090]

[0.146]

[0.089]

Cognitive skills

0.038

0.113***

        
 

[0.031]

[0.031]

        

Social skills

0.104***

0.007

        
 

[0.030]

[0.027]

        

Constant

-0.762***

-0.444

-0.065

-0.279*

0.125

-0.259

0.312*

0.418

0.037

-0.028

 

[0.253]

[0.295]

[0.191]

[0.152]

[0.248]

[0.186]

[0.161]

[0.253]

[0.223]

[0.252]

Clustered standard errors

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Fixed effects

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Observations

822

1327

822

1327

822

1327

665

1,059

665

1,059

Adjusted R-squared

0.036

0.032

0.066

0.045

0.003

0.014

0.018

0.047

-0.004

0.015

  1. 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. The definitions and measurement of the variables are displayed in Table 14 in Appendix A. The Randstad sample contains all workers who work in the following provinces: Noord-Holland, Zuid-Holland, and Utrecht. Clustered standard errors are in parentheses. Fixed effects refer to those at the two-digit occupational level (ISCO codes).