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Table 3 Logit results of STW take-up: firm-specific characteristics (marginal effects)

From: Short-time work in the Great Recession: firm-level evidence from 20 EU countries

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Shocks

 Moderate / strong negative demand shock

0.0513***

(0.006)

0.0612***

(0.005)

0.0636***

(0.005)

0.0640***

(0.005)

 

 Moderate negative demand shock

    

0.0487***

(0.005)

 Strong negative demand shock

  Persistence — Transitory

    

0.1101***

(0.029)

  Persistence — Semi-persistent

    

0.1085***

(0.016)

  Persistence — Long-lasting

    

0.1609***

(0.015)

 Moderate / strong negative access to finance shock

0.0257***

(0.005)

0.0278***

(0.005)

0.0288***

(0.005)

0.0280***

(0.005)

0.0231***

(0.005)

Share high-skilled non-manual employment (%)

− 0.0259**

(0.011)

− 0.0255***

(0.010)

− 0.0202**

(0.010)

− 0.0080

(0.010)

− 0.0086

(0.010)

Share high-skilled manual employment (%)

0.0426***

(0.010)

0.0233***

(0.007)

0.0238***

(0.007)

0.0103

(0.007)

0.0098

(0.007)

Share of employment with tenure > 5 years (%)

0.0854***

(0.014)

0.0705***

(0.011)

0.0752***

(0.012)

0.0655***

(0.011)

0.0582***

(0.010)

Has collective pay agreement inside or outside

0.0086

(0.007)

0.0145*

(0.008)

0.0064

(0.008)

0.0034

(0.007)

0.0034

(0.007)

Hiring costs — relevant/very relevant obstacles for hiring

− 0.0067

(0.006)

− 0.0013

(0.005)

− 0.0001

(0.005)

0.0007

(0.005)

0.0005

(0.005)

Firing costs — relevant/very relevant obstacles for hiring

0.0271***

(0.006)

0.0324***

(0.005)

0.0328***

(0.005)

0.0318***

(0.005)

0.0303***

(0.005)

Share of labour costs in firms’ total costs (%)

0.0002

(0.000)

0.0001

(0.000)

0.0002*

(0.000)

0.0003**

(0.000)

0.0003**

(0.000)

Share full-time permanent employment (%)

− 0.0136

(0.013)

− 0.0126

(0.013)

− 0.0089

(0.014)

− 0.0135

(0.014)

− 0.0136

(0.013)

Share part-time permanent employment (%)

0.0334*

(0.018)

0.0187

(0.017)

0.0292

(0.018)

0.0450**

(0.018)

0.0381**

(0.018)

Irrelevance of insufficiency of labour

− 0.0138**

− 0.0062

− 0.0056

− 0.0033

− 0.0081

with the required skills for hiring

(0.007)

(0.006)

(0.006)

(0.006)

(0.006)

Country dummies

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Size dummies

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Sector dummies

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Observations

16,043

16,043

16,043

16,043

15,858

Pseudo R2

0.076

0.124

0.129

0.142

0.154

  1. Unweighted average marginal effects reported. Standard errors clustered by country, sector and size in parentheses. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1