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

Table 3 Propensity score estimation: ICS policy versus non-participation

Female subsample
Variables		Estimates
	Coefficient	St. error	p-value
Age	−0.017	0.017	0.306
Age squared	0.000	0.000	0.375
Marital status single	0.154	0.071	0.030
Presence of children	−0.085	0.064	0.192
Home ownership	−0.006	0.048	0.907
Household members in need of care (yes)	−0.090	0.054	0.114
Education dummies
Upper secondary school	0.059	0.054	0.277
Tertiary education	0.116	0.072	0.100
Professional qualification dummies
Technical skills	−0.202	0.061	0.010
Administrative office skills	−0.037	0.048	0.433
Retail and service	−0.075	0.125	0.574
Other unskilled	0.056	0.066	0.390
Job search activity	−0.155	0.052	0.002
Received unemployment subsidy	0.004	0.047	0.936
Received training	−0.085	0.042	0.046
Sample size	579
Log-likelihood	33.02

Notes : Reporting marginal effects, see Section 3.2 for definition of variables. We focus on the subsample of women, but results on the full sample are available upon request.