Effectiveness of a job vacancy referral scheme

Table 1 Summary statistics

Variables	All	Treated	Not-treated	Referral	Invitation	Automatic referrals
	a = b + c	b = d + e + f	c	d	e	f
N	12,983	3353	9630	1311	1497	545
Gender (woman = 1)	0.500	0.475	0.509	0.498	0.455	0.475
Age (in years)	36.9	37.5	36.7	37.5	37.7	37.2
25–40	0.626	0.599	0.635	0.593	0.609	0.589
40–50	0.257	0.271	0.252	0.296	0.234	0.314
50+	0.117	0.129	0.113	0.111	0.157	0.097
# months unempl. in the preceding 2 years	6.5	6.9	6.3	7.4	6.6	6.9
Education level
No secondary degree	0.411	0.463	0.393	0.449	0.463	0.499
Secondary degree	0.361	0.359	0.362	0.349	0.374	0.343
Tertiary degree	0.228	0.177	0.245	0.202	0.163	0.158
Tertiary (outside university)	0.170	0.141	0.179	0.158	0.136	0.117
Tertiary (university)	0.058	0.036	0.066	0.044	0.027	0.040
Educational track^a
General track	0.090	0.090	0.090	0.087	0.088	0.106
Technical track	0.166	0.165	0.166	0.157	0.177	0.152
Vocational track^b	0.278	0.298	0.271	0.294	0.311	0.273
Province of residence
Antwerpen	0.296	0.306	0.293	0.240	0.359	0.316
Vlaams Brabant	0.150	0.154	0.148	0.146	0.169	0.130
West Vlaanderen	0.165	0.162	0.166	0.196	0.126	0.180
Oost Vlaanderen	0.245	0.218	0.254	0.285	0.168	0.194
Limburg	0.144	0.160	0.139	0.132	0.178	0.180
Driving license	0.795	0.781	0.799	0.755	0.813	0.754
Mother tongue = Dutch	0.797	0.782	0.802	0.770	0.819	0.712
Belgian	0.891	0.887	0.892	0.878	0.914	0.837

^aThe educational track is reported among pupils who started (but not necessarily completed) secondary school and who did not obtain any tertiary degree
^bThe small arts track is included in the vocational track