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Table 2 Comparison between OLS and IV estimates

From: Why to employ both migrants and natives? A study on task-specific substitutabilityWarum gleichzeitig Migranten und Einheimische beschäftigen? Eine Untersuchung der Aufgaben-spezifischen Substituierbarkeit

Qualification

Method

Tasks

All tasks

Analytical routine

Analytical non-routine

Manual routine

Manual non-routine

Interactive (non-routine)

Aggregated

OLS

0.0765

0.1148

0.1065

0.2269

0.1465

0.1284

OLS

(0.0035)

(0.0037)

(0.0068)

(0.0115)

(0.0052)

(0.0063)

IV

0.0832

0.1202

0.1006

0.3173

0.1738

0.1287

IV

(0.0044)

(0.0077)

(0.0099)

(0.0367)

(0.0130)

(0.0108)

Low-skilled

OLS

0.0497

0.3913

0.5605

0.5897

0.5104

0.5041

OLS

(0.0190)

(0.0246)

(0.0411)

(0.1770)

(0.0297)

(0.0247)

IV

0.1842

0.4884

0.8631

−18.9794a

0.6707

0.5780

IV

(0.0526)

(0.0507)

(0.0601)

(24.7456)

(0.0678)

(0.0353)

Medium skilled

OLS

0.0698

0.1041

0.1146

0.0694

0.0761

0.1136

OLS

(0.0042)

(0.0038)

(0.0037)

(0.0058)

(0.0053)

(0.0040)

IV

0.0701

0.1067

0.1111

0.0808

0.0863

0.1105

IV

(0.0052)

(0.0044)

(0.0037)

(0.0070)

(0.0074)

(0.0037)

High-skilled

OLS

0.0612

0.0785

0.0304

0.1007

0.0422

0.0317

OLS

(0.0067)

(0.0132)

(0.0091)

(0.0125)

(0.0138)

(0.0089)

IV

0.0859

0.0864

0.0485a

0.1193

0.1049a

0.0607a

IV

(0.0144)

(0.0191)

(0.0260)

(0.0215)

(0.0641)

(0.0383)

  1. Standard errors in parentheses
  2. The estimations in the first column build on 275 observations, those in column two to six on 55 observations
  3. aWeak instrument—the F-statistic of the instrument in the first-stage regression is below 10