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Table 1 Mean and standard deviation of average shares for explanatory variables and separated for the group of moving and unemployed persons. (Source: SOEP)

From: Work-related Migration and UnemploymentBeschäftigungsmotivierte Umzüge und Arbeitslosigkeit

 

Total

Job-motivated moves

Unemployed

Education (in years)

12.17

13.70

11.33

 

(2.54)

(2.94)

(2.12)

Age (in years)

44.73

33.59

45.86

 

(11.92)

(9.39)

(11.56)

Health (in 5 categories)

3.45

3.77

3.18

 

(0.89)

(0.84)

(0.96)

HH-Size (in persons)

2.86

2.04

2.69

 

(1.27)

(1.13)

(1.30)

Single (in %)

33.36

67.14

45.68

 

(0.47)

(0.47)

(0.50)

Children less than 16 (in %)

35.69

24.22

32.68

 

(0.48)

(0.43)

(0.47)

German (in %)

93.00

93.36

89.94

 

(0.26)

(0.25)

(0.30)

Other income (in €)

1588.58

997.62

1211.6

 

(1303.73)

(1011.10)

(951.48)

Partner unemployed (in %)

7.44

1.03

6.11

 

(0.26)

(0.31)

(0.42)

Owner (t-1) (in %)

52.40

17.68

33.11

 

(0.50)

(0.38)

(0.47)

Gender (female, in %)

52.86

53.26

52.02

 

(0.50)

(0.50)

(0.50)

Number of observations

81,600

768

6,571

  1. Standard errors in parentheses