Young beneficiaries’ routes off benefits through labour market integration: the case of Germany

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 2 Correlation of selected covariates (Pearson’s correlation, n=674, January 2005)

	Highest qualification of parents						Highest labour market status of parents (at respondents age of 15)								Equiv. household income
	No information		No school c.		At least lower secondary school c.		No information		Qualified employment		Low-Qualified employment		Unemployment		Equiv. household income
Equivalent household income	−0.061	*	−0.003		0.051	*	−0.100	*	0.083	*	0.014		−0.033	*	–
Social assistance receipt in 2004	0.104	*	−0.028	*	−0.064	*	0.087	*	−0.074	*	−0.048	*	0.068	*	−0.093	*
Unemployment assistance receipt before 2005	−0.048	*	−0.030	*	0.059	*	0.077	*	−0.002		−0.043	*	−0.020	*	−0.080	*
Schooling
No/lower secondary school certificate	0.120	*	0.119	*	−0.178	*	0.086	*	−0.113	*	−0.009		0.078	*	−0.076	*
Secondary school c.	−0.048	*	−0.118	*	0.120	*	−0.014		0.112	*	−0.063	*	−0.064	*	−0.013
University entrance d.	−0.098	*	−0.010		0.085	*	−0.096	*	0.009		0.090	*	−0.024	*	0.115	*
Household composition
Single	0.038	*	0.021	*	−0.044	*	0.060	*	−0.007		−0.006		−0.038	*	−0.270	*
With partner, no children	0.013		0.012		−0.018	*	−0.002		−0.018	*	−0.003		0.028	*	−0.083	*
Single parent	0.004		−0.067	*	0.042	*	−0.021	*	−0.009		0.016	*	0.012		−0.071	*
With partner and children	−0.048	*	0.041	*	0.010		0.022	*	0.071	*	−0.043	*	−0.064	*	0.117	*
With parents	−0.008		−0.015		0.017	*	−0.054	*	−0.030	*	0.029	*	0.055	*	0.233	*