Are student jobs flexible jobs? Using online data to study employers’ preferences in Slovakia

Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Žilinčíková, Zuzana

doi:10.1186/s40174-016-0070-5

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Table 3 Determinants of student job offers and flexible job offers

From: Are student jobs flexible jobs? Using online data to study employers’ preferences in Slovakia

	Student job	Flexible job	Student job	Flexible job
	M1	M2	M3	M4
Occupational category
Auxiliary worker (reference category)
Qualified labourer	−0.062***	−0.180***	−0.062***	−0.178***
Administrative worker	−0.046***	−0.215***	−0.046***	−0.210***
Qualified technical worker	−0.050***	−0.245***	−0.051***	−0.241***
Qualified non/technical worker	−0.065***	−0.209***	−0.065***	−0.205***
Lower and middle management	−0.077***	−0.243***	−0.077***	−0.239***
Top management	−0.107***	−0.319***	−0.107***	−0.315***
Sector
Mining, quarrying and manufacturing (reference category)
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	−0.01	0.002	−0.01	0.005
Construction	0.007	0.025**	0.007	0.024**
Wholesale and retail, transportation and storage, accommodation and food	0.039***	0.068***	0.040***	0.069***
Information and communication	0.030***	0.290***	0.031***	0.291***
Financial and insurance activities	0.093***	0.181***	0.092***	0.183***
Professional, scientific, technical, administrative and support service activities	0.069***	0.129***	0.070***	0.131***
Public administration, education, social work activities	0.045***	0.161***	0.045***	0.161***
Other services	0.083***	0.169***	0.081***	0.167***
Required education
Minimum education	−0.057***	−0.048***	−0.058***	−0.048***
Maximum education	0.024***	0.028***	0.025***	0.028***
Experience	−0.062***	−0.071***	−0.062***	−0.070***
Skills
No skills (reference category)
Administrative skills	−0.008	−0.151***	−0.008	−0.151***
Computer skills—user	0.034***	−0.072***	0.034***	−0.072***
Computer skills—programmer	0.026*	−0.157***	0.026*	−0.155***
Computer skills—administrator	0.02	−0.213***	0.019	−0.211***
Language skills	−0.001	−0.113***	−0.001	−0.112***
Agency offer	−0.118***	−0.294***	−0.119***	−0.294***
Minimum salary (thousand euro per month)	−0.028***	−0.192***	−0.028***	−0.193***
Region
Bratislavský (reference category)
Banskobystrický	0.004	−0.009	0.003	−0.009
Žilinský	0.001	−0.017**	0.002	−0.016**
Trenčiansky	0.010**	0.020**	0.010**	0.018**
Trnavský	0.011***	0.017**	0.011**	0.017**
Nitriansky	0.004	0.017**	0.003	0.017**
Prešovský	0.028***	−0.001	0.030***	0.001
Košický	0.016***	−0.009	0.018***	−0.008
Slovakia—not specified	0.018*	−0.001	0.017*	0.000
Abroad	0.038***	0.019**	0.037***	0.019**
Year
2009 (reference category)
2010	−0.01	0.022*
2011	0.016*	0.042***
2012	0.019**	0.053***
2013	0.013*	0.019*
2014	−0.003	−0.002
Macroeconomic factors
GDP growth			−0.003*	−0.001
Unemployment rate			0.011*	0.018*
_cons	0.463	3.419	0.061	0.667
N	165,313	165,313	165,313	165,313
Pseudo R ²	0.293	0.300	0.291	0.299

*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001
^aProbit with clustered standard errors, clustered at the level of job offer. Marginal effects
^bData source for GDP and unemployment: Eurostat

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