Employment subsidies, informal economy and women’s transition into work in a depressed area: evidence from a matching approach

Table 1 Descriptive statistics: demographics (values in percentage)

	Full sample		Female subsample		Male subsample
	ICS policy	Non-participants	ICS policy	Non-participants	ICS policy	Non-participants
Main demographics
Female	73.8	75.5
Age (in years)	32.7	33.5	32.1	32.6	34.4	36.4
Family characteristics
Marital status single	60.5	66.0	59.5	63.9	63.3	72.3
Presence of children	31.6	31.5	34.2	34.0	24.1	24.1
Household members in need of care (yes)	11.32***	20.8***	12.18*	18.06*	8.82***	29.66***
Home ownership
Yes	75.4	73.7	73.0	73.2	82.3	75.2
Educational attainments
Lower secondary school or less	35.6	35.3	32.0	32.5	45.6	43.8
Upper secondary school	45.9	46.2	46.9	47.5	43.0	42.3
Tertiary education	18.6	18.5	21.2	20.0	11.4	13.9
Professional qualification
High skills	2.3	3.4	2.7	3.3	1.3	3.7
Technical skills	7.0	9.5	4.5*	8.08*	13.9	13.9
Administrative office skills	36.2	39.8	40.1	42.0	25.3	32.9
Retail and service	29.2	26.2	33.3	31.4	17.7	10.2
Artisans and farmers	7.3	4.8	1.8	2.1	22.78*	13.14*
Blue collars	2.3	1.6	0.9	0.7	6.3	4.4
Other unskilled (unspecified)	15.6	14.7	16.7	12.4	12.66*	21.9*

Notes : This table shows the main descriptive statistics on the socio economic characteristics of our sample of eligible individuals. Data are differentiated both between treated (ICS Policy) and non treated (non participants) and by gender. All variables refer to the pre-treatment period. Household members in need of care: refers to families where at least one person needs long term care (elderly, disabled). Professional qualifications are self-reported. Asterisks denote that the difference between treated/non treated is significant at *10%, **5%, ***1%.