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Table 7 Mobility

From: Who suffers from unemployment? The role of health and skills

 

Mobility decision

Unemloyment

 

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

Unemployment rate

0.813

1.744a

16.936a

27.201a

 

(0.624)

(0.364)

(2.349)

(3.083)

UR interacted with:

 Intermediate health

−0.004

−0.097a

−1.090a

−0.877a

 

(0.055)

(0.027)

(0.392)

(0.224)

 Poor health

0.047

0.106

−1.103

−0.212

 

(0.130)

(0.075)

(0.753)

(0.546)

 Medium cognitive ability

−0.097

−0.296a

−0.532

−1.534a

 

(0.139)

(0.064)

(0.645)

(0.397)

 Low cognitive ability

−0.245

−0.387a

−0.771

−2.663a

 

(0.194)

(0.081)

(0.906)

(0.719)

 Medium non-cog. ability

−0.249b

−0.236a

0.557

−0.721a

 

(0.146)

(0.046)

(0.483)

(0.203)

 Low non-cog. ability

−0.239

−0.127a

−0.143

−1.145a

 

(0.156)

(0.040)

(0.530)

(0.287)

 Secondary education

−0.261

−0.893a

0.028

−3.731a

 

(0.340)

(0.306)

(0.845)

(0.586)

 Primary education

−0.104

−0.737a

1.104

−1.654a

 

(0.344)

(0.271)

(0.958)

(0.449)

Region effects

X

 

X

 

Observations

4,437,246

227,263

  1. The outcome variable in column A and B is an indicator taking the value one if the individual moves between the current and next time period (2 years later). In column C and D, the sample is restricted to movers and the outcome variable is a dummy taking the value one if the individual moves to a region with lower unemployment. Columns B and D do not account for region effects. Standard errors are clustered at the regional level and are displayed in parentheses
  2. a1% significance, bindicates 10% significance and c5% significance