Table 1 Heckman joint maximum likelihood estimates of the wage equation

Schooling

0.0078

0.0019

0.0000

0.0069

0.0020

0.0010

Age

0.0270

0.0032

0.0000

0.0281

0.0038

0.0000

Age square

−0.0003

0.0000

0.0000

−0.0003

0.0000

0.0000

Female

−0.1493

0.0401

0.0000

−0.1209

0.0316

0.0000

Work in Israel

0.5928

0.0151

0.0000

0.4390

0.0147

0.0000

Occupation dummies^a

 Legislators and senior administrators

0.8794

0.4129

0.0330

−0.1359

0.0506

0.0070

 Professionals and clerks

0.4532

0.1179

0.0000

0.4596

0.1139

0.0000

 Services and shop sales

0.1468

0.0863

0.0890

−0.1190

0.1218

0.3290

 Skilled agricultural and fishery workers

−0.0106

0.0236

0.6510

0.0820

0.0232

0.0000

 Crafts’ workers

0.2197

0.1220

0.0720

−0.0313

0.0976

0.7490

 Plant and machine operators

0.2561

0.0685

0.0000

0.2338

0.0733

0.0010

Governorate dummies^a

 Jenin

0.6312

0.0334

0.0000

0.5724

0.0331

0.0000

 Tubas

0.5664

0.0240

0.0000

0.3333

0.0325

0.0000

 Tulkarem

0.5428

0.0256

0.0000

0.4939

0.0376

0.0000

 Nablus

0.7052

0.0722

0.0000

0.4553

0.0420

0.0000

 Qalqilia

0.6708

0.0357

0.0000

0.6496

0.0409

0.0000

 Salfeet

0.8953

0.0785

0.0000

0.8024

0.0496

0.0000

 Ramallah

0.8628

0.0991

0.0000

0.6479

0.0412

0.0000

 Jericho

0.5522

0.0219

0.0000

0.3573

0.0303

0.0000

 Jerusalem

1.0478

0.0459

0.0000

0.8206

0.0555

0.0000

 41

1.0697

0.0464

0.0000

 Bethlahim

0.7395

0.0630

0.0000

0.7379

0.0525

0.0000

 Hebron

0.6721

0.0307

0.0000

0.5415

0.0388

0.0000

 GS-north

0.2208

0.0247

0.0000

0.2184

0.0669

0.0010

 Gaza city

0.2416

0.0379

0.0000

0.1985

0.0443

0.0000

 Deir Albalah

0.0719

0.0258

0.0050

0.0440

0.0624

0.4810

 Khan younis

−0.0364

0.0219

0.0960

0.0837

0.0350

0.0170

Constant

2.6862

0.0790

0.0000

2.7360

0.0949

0.0000