Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 3 Average Silhouette Width values for optimal number of Clusters per Cohort and Cluster method

From: Employment trajectories of workers in low-skilled jobs in Western Germany

Cluster method		Cohort 1955–1959		Cohort 1965–1969
Cluster method		Ward	Ward + PAM	Ward	Ward + PAM
Cluster solutions	2 Cluster	0.32	0.28	0.30	0.29
	3 Cluster	0.46	0.47	0.42	0.44
	4 Cluster	0.52	0.53	0.39	0.48
	5 Cluster	0.57	0.58	0.45	0.54
	6 Cluster	0.59	0.60	0.46	0.57
	7 Cluster	0.43	0.52	0.44	0.54
	8 Cluster	0.40	0.49	0.46	0.54
	9 Cluster	0.37	0.46	0.48	0.53
	10 Cluster	0.36	0.46	0.50	0.55
	11 Cluster	0.35	0.46	0.49	0.53
	12 Cluster	0.37	0.48	0.46	0.54
	13 Cluster	0.38	0.47	0.40	0.55
	14 Cluster	0.38	0.49	0.43	0.56
	15 Cluster	0.40	0.48	0.44	0.57

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