Table 5 Variables definition and summary statistics
From: Active labour market policy use in Luxembourg: evidence from a firm survey
Variable | Description | N | Mean |
|---|---|---|---|
Benefit from ALMP | Discrete; 1 if benefited form any ALMP in t, 0 otherwise | 1293 | 0.43 |
Applied for STW | Discrete; 1 if applied for STW in t, 0 otherwise | 1312 | 0.04 |
Manufacturing | Discrete; 1 if firm belongs to NACE code C, 0 otherwise | 1348 | 0.11 |
Construction | Discrete; 1 if firm belongs to NACE code F, 0 otherwise | 1348 | 0.22 |
Business services | Discrete; 1 if firm belongs to NACE codes H, I, J, L, M or N, 0 otherwise | 1348 | 0.30 |
Financial intermediation | Discrete; 1 if firm belongs to NACE code K, 0 otherwise | 1348 | 0.13 |
5–19 employees | Discrete; 1 if firm had 5–19 employees at the end of 2013, 0 otherwise | 1348 | 0.35 |
20–49 employees | Discrete; 1 if firm had 20–49 employees at the end of 2013, 0 otherwise | 1348 | 0.25 |
50–199 employees | Discrete; 1 if firm had 50–199 employees at the end of 2013, 0 otherwise | 1348 | 0.14 |
200 + employees | Discrete; 1 if firm had 200 employees or more at the end of 2013, 0 otherwise | 1348 | 0.05 |
Period 10/13 | Discrete; 1 if t is 2010/13, 0 otherwise | 1348 | 0.50 |
Affiliate/subsidiary firm | Discrete; 1 if firm was a subsidiary/affiliate at the end of 2013, 0 otherwise | 1338 | 0.28 |
Domestic ownership | Discrete; 1 if the firm’s ownership was mainly domestic at the end of 2013, 0 otherwise | 1336 | 0.75 |
Multi-establishment firm | Discrete; 1 if the firm was a multiple-establishment firm at the end of 2013, 0 otherwise | 1346 | 0.14 |
FT perm. empl., share | Continuous; permanent full-time employees as a share of total employees at the end of 2007 | 1274 | 0.87 |
PT perm. empl., share | Continuous; permanent part-time employees as a share of total employees at the end of 2007 | 1274 | 0.11 |
Cross-border empl., share | Continuous; cross-border employees as a share of total employees at the end of 2007 | 1272 | 0.51 |
High-skill empl., share | Continuous; employees belonging to ISCO classes 1, 2, 3, 7 or 8 as a share of total employees at the end of 2013 | 1330 | 0.58 |
Tenure > 5 years, share | Continuous; employees with job tenure exceeding 5 years as a share of total employees at the end of 2013 | 1338 | 0.60 |
Domestic revenue, share | Continuous; sales in the domestic market as a share of total sales in 2013 | 1340 | 0.71 |
Collective pay agreement | Discrete; 1 if the proportion of employees covered in 2013 by any collective pay agreement is greater than 0, 0 otherwise | 1316 | 0.45 |
Competition, severe/very severe (index) | Continuous, weighted average; 1 = weak, 2 = moderate, 3 = severe, 4 = very severe, weighted by the respective market share in 2013 | 1338 | 0.78 |
Cost of labour: relevant/very relevant issue | Discrete; 1 if cost of labour was a relevant/very relevant issue for the firm in t, 0 otherwise | 1284 | 0.61 |
Availability of skilled labour: relevant/very relevant issue | Discrete; 1 if availability of skilled staff or experienced managers was a relevant/very relevant issue for the firm in t, 0 otherwise | 1298 | 0.60 |
Relevant hiring obstacle: hiring costs | Discrete; 1 if firing costs were a relevant/very relevant obstacle in hiring workers with a permanent, open-ended contracts at the end of 2013, 0 otherwise | 1312 | 0.34 |
Relevant hiring obstacle: firing costs | Discrete; 1 if hiring costs were a relevant/very relevant obstacle in hiring workers with a permanent, open-ended contracts at the end of 2013, 0 otherwise | 1318 | 0.47 |
Relevant hiring obstacle: skilled labour | Discrete; 1 if insufficient availability of labour with the required skills was a relevant/very relevant obstacle in hiring workers with a permanent, open-ended contracts at the end of 2013, 0 otherwise | 1320 | 0.65 |