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

Table 6 Robustness analysis: radius matching

Notes : This table shows the resulting ATT estimates. The 2^nd and 3^rd columns include the sample sizes for, respectively, the treated and control groups (and for the two different outcomes, employment and income). Standard errors are in parentheses and are based on bootstrapping with 200 replications. We apply a Radius-matching method (caliper of 0.1). Low educational level: this subsample refers to individuals with, at most, lower secondary school attainment levels. High educational level refers to individuals with upper secondary or above. We performed the equality test comparing the estimated effects of the following groups: male vs female (II vs III), low vs high educational levels (IV vs V), young vs old cohorts (VI vs VII), first vs second wave (VIII vs IX). First wave refers to the first call of the ICS program launched in 2006. Second wave refers to the second call was launched in 2007 (see also section 2). *Indicates that the difference of the two estimated effects is significant at the 10% level.