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Table 7 Relative contribution of labor market variables in explaining migration flows

From: Testing the neoclassical migration model: overall and age-group specific results for German regionsTests zur Validität des neoklassischen Migrationsmodells: Allgemeine und altersgruppenspezifische Resultate für deutsche Raumordnungsregionen

 

Specification A

Specification B

Age group

\( { y_{ij,t-1} } \)

\( { u_{ij,t-1} } \)

Joint

\( { y_{ij,t-1} } \)

\( { u_{ij,t-1} } \)

Joint

Up to 18

1%

3%

4%

0%

19%

19%

18 to 25

29%

21%

50%

19%

8%

27%

25 to 30

18%

14%

31%

54%

11%

65%

30 to 50

1%

5%

6%

5%

8%

13%

50 to 65

1%

1%

1%

2%

0%

2%

Over 65

1%

0%

2%

1%

1%

2%

  1. Note: Specification  A is based on the computation of the squared correlation of the respective regressor with the dependent variables (univariate \( { R^2 } \)). Specification  B is calculated using the estimated SYS-GMM coefficient from the augmented migration model specification in Table  9 (see the Appendix). The_estimation coefficient for regressor \( { x_k } \) is further standardized as \( { {\hat{\beta}_{\text{standardized},{k}}}\,{=}\,{\hat{\beta}_{{k}}}\,{{\sqrt{{s}_{{kk}}}}/{\sqrt{{s}_{{yy}}}}} } \), where \( { {s}_{{kk}} } \) and \( { {s}_{{yy}} } \) denote the empirical variances of regressor \( { x_k } \) and the dependent variable  \( { y } \), respectively. As long as one only compares regressors within models for the same  \( { y } \), division by \( { \sqrt{{s}_{{yy}}} } \) is irrelevant.