Wage gains from foreign ownership: evidence from linked employer–employee data

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 11 Descriptive statistics

	Mean	St. dev.
Male	0.619
Age	37.9	10.4
Log health expenditures/national average wage	− 2.08	1.8
Receives disability pension/payment	0.006
Receives care benefit	0.008
Log regional unemployment rate	− 2.66	0.386
Central Hungary including Budapest	0.458
Tenure is unobserved	0.398
Tenure (months)	13.44	19.0
Top manager	0.051
Other manager	0.271
Professional	0.299
Other white collar	0.112
Skilled blue collar	0.025
Assembler, machine operator	0.169
Elementary occupation	0.012
Agriculture	0.025
Manufacturing	0.277
Construction	0.061
Trade	0.278
Finance	0.126
Energy	0.018
Other services	0.215
Foreign	0.397
Domestic	0.603
Firm size (log)	4.67	2.32
Fixed assets per worker (log)	7.92	1.81
Exporter	0.521

Skilled workers, estimation sample for the wage gap model (Eq. 1)
Each variable covers 19,961,622 person months. The spells belong to workers employed at least once in a firm, the size of which exceeded the 10 workers limit at least once in 2003–2011. Public sector and state-owned firms are excluded. Note that other samples used in the paper have been drawn from this source file