Table 2 Description of variables
From: The employability of ex-offenders: a field experiment in the Swedish labor market
Variables | Explanation |
|---|---|
Outcome variable (y) | |
Positive response | 1 if an applicant received a promising response (interview invite or job offer) from an employer, 0 otherwise |
Explanatory variables (x) | |
Ex-offender | 1 if the fictitious applicant was an ex-offender, 0 otherwise |
Female applicant | 1 if the fictitious applicant was a woman, 0 otherwise |
Job fixed effects | 1 if the job applied belonged to a particular occupation (one dummy for each occupation), 0 otherwise |
Female job | 1 if the job belonged to a female dominated occupation, 0 otherwise |
Female HRM | 1 if the human resource manager was a woman, 0 otherwise |
High-skill job | 1 if the occupation required a university degree, 0 otherwise |
Urban | 1 if the job placement was in Göteborg, Malmö, or Stockholm, 0 otherwise |
Control variables (c) | |
Full-time | 1 if the job opening offered a full-time position, 0 otherwise |
Tenure | 1 if the job opening offered a tenured position, 0 otherwise |
County fixed effects | 1 if the job was located in a particular county (one dummy for each county), 0 otherwise |
Season fixed effects | 1 if the job was applied to in a specific month (one dummy for each month), 0 otherwise |
Application template | 1 if the first application package out of two matched ones was used, 0 otherwise |
Application order | 1 if a fictitious applicant (out of two) applied first to an employer, 0 otherwise |