Tackling graduate unemployment in North Africa through employment subsidies: A look at the SIVP programme in Tunisia

Table 4 The effect of SIVP participation on labour market outcomes

		Joblessness	Unemployed^a	Private firm^a	Contract^b	Permanent contract^c	Earnings^b
Descriptive
	β	−0.069***	−0.090***	0.288***	0.031	−0.243***	−0.050
	s.e.	0.019	0.020	0.018	0.019	0.026	0.029
	N	3511	3198	3198	2112	1752	1915
	R²	0.004	0.007	0.073	0.001	0.046	0.002
OLS
	β	−0.077***	−0.097***	0.197***	0.064**	−0.129***	0.005
	s.e.	0.019	0.020	0.018	0.020	0.027	0.028
	N	3511	3198	3198	2112	1752	1915
	R²	0.113	0.136	0.203	0.134	0.248	0.300
PSM
	β	−0.080***	−0.098***	0.215***	0.056**	−0.156***	−0.009
	s.e.	0.019	0.020	0.021	0.019	0.028	0.030
	on support	3507	3194	3194	2110	1750	1913
	p > chi²	1	0.999	0.999	0.978	0.988	0.999
	mean bias	2.2	2.4	2.4	3.5	3.6	3.2

* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001.
^a Conditional on being active ^b Conditional on being employed ^c Conditional on having a contract.
Notes: earnings regressions are in semi-log form.