From: Informality and exclusion: evidence from matched employer-employee data for Lebanon and Syria
 | Lebanon | Syria | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Dependent variable informal | (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
Female | -0.0123 | -0.0162 | 0.0573 | 0.0489 |
 | (0.0584) | (0.0610) | (0.0584) | (0.0609) |
Years of education | -0.0172*** | -0.0201*** | -0.00542 | -0.00527 |
 | (0.0054) | (0.0060) | (0.00440) | (0.00490) |
Age | -0.0545*** | -0.0614*** | -0.0565*** | -0.0562*** |
 | (0.0153) | (0.0161) | (0.0123) | (0.0126) |
Age2 | 0.0006*** | 0.0007*** | 0.000640*** | 0.000634*** |
 | (0.0002) | (0.0002) | (0.000160) | (0.000163) |
Firm size <5 (base 10–49) | 0.5321*** | 0.5303*** | 0.297*** | 0.308*** |
 | (0.0614) | (0.0653) | (0.0827) | (0.0803) |
Firm size 5-9 | 0.2089** | 0.2108** | 0.268*** | 0.279*** |
 | (0.0832) | (0.0853) | (0.0860) | (0.0883) |
Firm size >50 | -0.1921*** | -0.2358*** | -0.285*** | -0.273*** |
 | (0.0576) | (0.0583) | (0.0730) | (0.0746) |
Cognitive score quintile 2 | Â | 0.1063 | Â | 0.0408 |
 |  | (0.0823) |  | (0.0521) |
Cognitive score quintile 3 | Â | 0.0667 | Â | 0.00539 |
 |  | (0.0864) |  | (0.0515) |
Cognitive score quintile 4 | Â | 0.0051 | Â | 0.0116 |
 |  | (0.0863) |  | (0.0743) |
Cognitive score quintile 5 | Â | 0.1107 | Â | 0.0258 |
 |  | (0.0939) |  | (0.0879) |
Open to experience | Â | 0.1329** | Â | -0.0129 |
 |  | (0.0572) |  | (0.0389) |
Conscientious | Â | 0.0166 | Â | -0.00476 |
 |  | (0.0583) |  | (0.0611) |
Extrovert | Â | -0.1509*** | Â | -0.0360 |
 |  | (0.0549) |  | (0.0409) |
Agreeable | Â | -0.0268 | Â | 0.0406 |
 |  | (0.0584) |  | (0.0450) |
Emotionally stable | Â | -0.0558 | Â | -0.0322 |
 |  | (0.0561) |  | (0.0464) |
Observations | 502 | 490 | 928 | 928 |
Pseudo-R2 | 0.299 | 0.326 | 0.173 | 0.173 |