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Table 3 Treatment impacts on employment

From: The impact of soft skills training on female youth employment: evidence from a randomized experiment in Jordan

 

Labor force participation

Employed

Formal contract

Employed and registered for social security (survey)

Employed and registered for social security (admin data)

Hours worked last week

Work income (not conditional on working)

Work income (conditional on working)

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

Assigned to soft skills training

0.026 (0.023)

0.012 (0.028)

0.005 (0.023)

0.004 (0.017)

−0.007 (0.015)

0.748 (1.062)

2.262 (4.715)

−0.019 (4.198)

Assigned to soft skills*follow-up 2 (December 2011)

−0.001 (0.031)

−0.015 (0.031)

0.006 (0.026)

−0.001 (0.020)

−0.003 (0.015)

−0.279 (1.249)

−2.971 (5.253)

−2.908 (7.109)

Assigned to soft skills*follow-up 3 (January 2013)

−0.028 (0.033)

0.021 (0.034)

0.017 (0.028)

0.013 (0.025)

n.a.

1.160(1.324)

8.177 (6.635)

6.435 (9.720)

Follow-up 2 (December 2011)

−0.256*** (0.021)

−0.155*** (0.021)

−0.068*** (0.018)

0.040*** (0.014)

0.066*** (0.010)

−3.839*** (0.827)

−17.296*** (3.637)

17.652*** (4.992)

Follow-up 3 (January 2013)

−0.214*** (0.023)

−0.124*** (0.023)

−0.027 (0.019)

0.070*** (0.017)

n.a.

−3.996*** (0.889)

−9.125** (4.430)

54.463*** (6.912)

Control mean in first follow-up

0.783

0.345

0.157

0.087

0.074

12.263

52.185

155.199

Sample size

3759

3759

3720

3603

2564

3721

3721

1049

p value: no effect at follow-up 2

0.382

0.909

0.531

0.883

0.577

0.663

0.876

0.679

p value: no effect at follow-up 3

0.937

0.195

0.312

0.439

0.623

0.078

0.078

0.498

p value: equality of follow-up 2 and 3 effects

0.419

0.160

0.639

0.480

0.813

0.199

0.034

0.320

  1. Note: Huber-White standard errors in parentheses, clustered at the student level. All regressions also control for stratification dummies
  2. n.a. denotes Administrative Data on Social Security Registration not available for the third follow-up period
  3. *, **, and *** indicate significance at the 10, 5, and 1 % levels, respectively