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

Table 5 The effect of SIVP participation on unemployment, by sub-group

	Gender		Region		Subject with insertion difficulties		Unemployed first 3 months after graduation
	Male	Female	North East	Rest of Country	Yes	No	Yes	No
β	−0.072**	−0.118***	−0.091**	−0.113***	−0.081	−0.104***	−0.120***	−0.071*
s.e.	0.027	0.029	0.028	0.028	0.046	0.023	0.029	0.029
on support	1439	1753	1242	1952	804	2390	1722	1473
p > chi2	1.000	1.000	1.000	0.997	0.989	1.000	1.000	1.000
mean bias	3.1	3.1	2.8	2.9	5.1	2.3	2.7	2.9
Test of equality of coefficients		1.14		0.54		−0.45		1.20

* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001
Notes: All results reported based on Kernel PSM with common support imposed. Conditional on being active.
Test of equality of coefficients using the formula: $Z = \frac{b_{1} - b_{2}}{\sqrt{s . e . b_{1}^{2} - s . e . b_{2}^{2}}}$