Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 4 Average Silhouette Width values within Clusters per Cohort, Cluster method and Cluster solution

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
5 Cluster solution	1	0.58	0.55	−0.03	0.49
	2	0.54	0.58	0.86	0.59
	3	0.64	0.68	0.83	0.67
	4	0.25	0.33	0.52	0.46
	5	0.62	0.55	0.18	0.24
6 Cluster Solution	1	0.57	0.58	−0.04	0.51
	2	0.54	0.57	0.86	0.61
	3	0.64	0.68	0.83	0.66
	4	0.26	0.31	0.46	0.45
	5	0.60	0.50	0.19	0.37
	6	0.60	0.62	0.66	0.43

GSOEP v36; calculation and presentation of results by the authors

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