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Table 7 Probability of entering into self-employment

From: Labor market conditions and self-employment: a Denmark-Spain comparison

 

Denmark

Spain

Variable

Women

Men

Women

Men

Constant

-5.952 (-1.49)

-9.523 (-3.15)

-8.537(-3.46)

-10.339 (-5.89)

Age

0.120 ( 0.74)

0.281 (2.15)

0.299 (3.77)

0.364 (5.18)

Age2

-0.0006 (-0.34)

-0.003 (-1.87)

-0.003 (-3.63)

-0.004 (-5.13)

Married

0.565 (1.18)

-0.119 (-0.71)

-0.054 (-0.36)

0.431 (3.25)

Citizenship

-1.632 (-2.97)

-0.444 (-0.80)

-0.460 (-0.89)

-0.774 (-1.89)

Health

0.077 (0.42)

-0.019 (-0.13)

0.058 (0.72)

0.087 (1.43)

Univ. educ.

2.384 (1.57)

0.963 (1.08)

1.332 (2.56)

1.441 (4.65)

Skilled

0.189 (0.46)

0.667 (1.77)

-0.101 (-0.58)

0.322 (2.90)

Relative se

1.938 (6.03)

0.776 (1.73)

0.948 (8.82)

0.860 (9.35)

Child 0-2

1.214 (2.33)

0.583 (1.76)

-0.787 (-1.31)

0.032 (0.18)

Child 0-2×NE

-0.622 (-0.90)

0.025 (0.00)

1.385 (2.14)

0.254 (0.91)

Child 3-6

0.486 (1.27)

-0.087 (-0.29)

-0.028 (-0.15)

-0.194 (-1.48)

Child 7-16

-0.436 (-1.13)

-0.027 (-0.11)

-0.071 (-0.54)

-0.188 (-1.88)

Wholesale×WE

0.333 (0.84)

0.142 (0.52)

0.464 (2.67)

0.546 (4.73)

Hotel/Trans.×WE

0.217 (0.33)

-0.298 (-0.68)

-0.015 (-0.07)

0.363 (2.49)

Finance×WE

-0.516 (-0.78)

0.076 (0.23)

-0.244 (-1.15)

0.573 (3.46)

Services×WE

-0.622 (-1.67)

-1.0676 (-2.43)

-0.772 (-4.45)

-0.369 (-1.99)

Work income×WE

-0.0001 (-3.23)

0.00003 (3.26)

-0.00007 (-4.45)

-0.00005 (-6.66)

Capital income

0.0002 (0.83)

0.00005 (2.61)

-0.0001 (-0.70)

0.00002 (0.60)

Benefits×NE

-0.301 (-0.67)

0.547 (0.93)

-1.141 (-3.91)

-0.966 (-5.84)

Job tenure×WE

-0.131 (-1.94)

-0.083 (-2.08)

-0.134 (-3.75)

-0.131 (-6.26)

Private sector×WE

1.782 (3.32)

0.930 (2.13)

0.597 (1.92)

0.822 (3.44)

Working hours×WE

-0.189 (-4.02)

-0.127 (-3.98)

-0.092 (-2.96)

-0.077 (-3.30)

Working hours2×WE

0.002 (3.91)

0.002 (4.85)

0.001 (3.00)

0.001 (4.73)

U. Rate

8.463 (0.66)

-6.511 (-0.60)

1.325 (0.53)

4.258 (2.83)

U. Rate×Univ.educ.

-25.157 (-1.28)

-3.223 (-0.20)

-3.015 (-1.76)

-6.622 (-4.03)

NE

-0.813 (-1.51)

0.156 (0.18)

0.267 (0.57)

1.097 (2.19)

N Observations

6,042

6,248

7,833

12,756

Log-likelihood

-234.421

-431.498

-1146.483

-2084.476

  1. Logit estimates.
  2. Note: t-statistics in brackets.