Disability and employment across Central and Eastern European Countries

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 9 Estimated coefficients of initial employment status equation of the Heckman model by country, 2007–2010

	Poland		Lithuania		Czech Republic		Slovak Republic		Hungary		Romania
Age [35–44]	0.394	***	0.055		3.245	**	0.903	**	0.828	***	0.220
Age [45–54]	0.021		−0.171		3.557	***	0.490		0.709	*	−0.554	**
Age [55–60]	−0.854	***	−0.302		−0.775		−0.999	**	−0.105		−2.044	***
Upper secondary	0.585	***	0.281		0.409		1.826	***	1.352	***	0.881	***
Post-secondary or tertiary	1.182	***	0.700	*	−1.467		2.144	***	1.169	***	2.026	***
Married	0.453	***	0.464	*	0.349		0.671	**	−0.134		0.230
Number of kids 0–3	−0.289	*	−0.756	*	−7.988	***	−0.922	**	−2.024	***	−0.878	*
Number of kids 4–15	0.039		−0.021		−1.683	*	−0.040		−0.271	*	−0.043
Local unemployment rate	−0.110	*	−0.040		0.110		−0.005		0.746	*	−0.349
Equivalised household income (.000)	0.150	***	0.317	***	1.235	***	0.483	***	0.758	***	0.779	***
Female	−1.133	***	−0.463	*	−10.911	***	−0.780	***	−1.326	***	−1.503	***
Disability	−0.928	***	−0.668	***	−14.386	***	−0.897	**	−2.456	***	−1.935	***
Strong disability	−2.533	***	−2.422	***	−17.768	***	−3.284	***	−4.188	***	−3.522	***
Change in local unemployment rate 2006–2007	0.023	*	−0.068	**	0.070		−0.132	***	−0.333	*	0.013
Constant	2.261	***	0.315		14.601	**	−1.533		−8.031	*	2.160
ρ	0.39	***	0.61	***	0.079	**	0.086		0.16	***	0.209	**
θ	1.92	***	0.94	***	5.577	**	5.962	*	5.54	***	4.380	**

*Significant at the 10 % level; **significant at the 5 % level; ***significant at the 1 % level
Source: our elaborations of EU SILC data