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Table 3 Probability of self employment vs wage employment & unemployment

From: Court-ship, kinship and business: a study on the interaction between the formal and the informal institutions and its effect on entrepreneurship

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

IN*FC

-0.596**

-0.630***

-0.798***

-0.688***

-0.652**

 

(0.230)

(0.237)

(0.275)

(0.251)

(0.260)

Informal Network(IN)

0.355***

0.379***

0.354**

0.350**

0.333**

 

(0.137)

(0.141)

(0.164)

(0.151)

(0.157)

Formal Court(FC)

0.031

0.041

0.102*

0.092*

0.091*

 

(0.033)

(0.035)

(0.052)

(0.051)

(0.052)

Formal Loan Availability

 

-0.071

-0.081

-0.143**

-0.151**

  

(0.051)

(0.066)

(0.071)

(0.069)

Loan Amount

  

0.001**

0.001***

0.001***

   

(0.001)

(0.001)

(0.001)

Caste Association

    

0.028**

     

(0.014)

Hindu

   

-0.071***

-0.071***

    

(0.012)

(0.012)

High Caste

   

0.059***

0.061***

    

(0.022)

(0.022)

Education

   

0.139***

0.139***

    

(0.009)

(0.009)

Constant

0.196***

0.201***

0.195***

0.155***

0.152***

 

(0.018)

(0.019)

(0.031)

(0.032)

(0.033)

Observations

36,837

14,737

14,708

14,704

 

R-squared

0.002

0.007

0.031

0.031

 
  1. Source: IHDS 2004–2005, own calculations.
  2. Notes: Linear probability models. Standard errors in parentheses, adjusted for clustering at village level.
  3. ***significant at 1%; **significant at 5%; *significant at 10%.