The effects of active labour market policies for immigrants receiving social assistance in Denmark

Heinesen, Eskil; Husted, Leif; Rosholm, Michael

doi:10.1186/2193-9039-2-15

Table 7 Estimated parameters for controls in the hazard rate to employment

From: The effects of active labour market policies for immigrants receiving social assistance in Denmark

	Females			Males
	Coeff.	SE		Coeff.	SE
Years since migration: 5-9	0.276	0.038	***	0.134	0.029	***
Years since migration: 10-19	0.008	0.053		−0.102	0.040	***
Years since migration: 20-	−0.126	0.050	***	−0.092	0.038	***
From Turkey	−0.455	0.063	***	−0.228	0.049	***
From Europe (except former Yugoslavia)	−0.353	0.060	***	−0.322	0.048	***
From Africa (except Somalia)	−0.360	0.067	***	−0.267	0.051	***
From Somalia	−0.971	0.071	***	−0.532	0.048	***
From American countries	−0.176	0.094	*	−0.275	0.092	***
From Afghanistan	−0.574	0.124	***	−0.249	0.076	***
From Iraq	−0.851	0.076	***	−0.458	0.044	***
From Iran	−0.253	0.075	***	−0.176	0.052	***
From Sri Lanka	0.226	0.077	***	0.057	0.065
From other Asian countries	−0.119	0.062	*	−0.170	0.056	***
From Pakistan	−0.676	0.084	***	−0.135	0.063	**
From Libanon	−0.998	0.084	***	−0.485	0.052	***
From other countries	−0.588	0.082	***	−0.388	0.056	***
Family reunified to a refugee	−0.262	0.058	***	−0.110	0.063	*
Family reunified to non-refugee	0.074	0.052		0.117	0.044	***
EU residence permit	0.082	0.079		−0.011	0.079
Unknown type of residence permit	−0.145	0.050	***	−0.288	0.037	***
Age 16-24	1.221	0.061	***	1.132	0.048	***
Age 25-34	1.068	0.050	***	0.799	0.037	***
Age 35-44	0.803	0.048	***	0.475	0.034	***
Children 3–6 years of age	0.299	0.038	***	0.109	0.032	***
Children 7–17 years of age	0.544	0.042	***	0.214	0.035	***
No children	0.415	0.039	***	0.035	0.034
Single	−0.163	0.029	***	−0.095	0.031	***
Working experience up to 1 year	1.675	0.035	***	1.296	0.028	***
Working experience 1–3 years	1.860	0.044	***	1.667	0.033	***
Working experience 3 years or more	1.776	0.058	***	1.779	0.042	***
Lives in provincial town municipality	−0.078	0.032	***	0.026	0.024
Lives in a rural district	0.111	0.045	***	0.167	0.037	***
Danish education	−1.536	0.142	***	−1.280	0.114	***
Years of Danish education	0.178	0.012	***	0.126	0.010	***
Foreign education	−0.420	0.087	***	−0.387	0.078	***
Years of foreign education	0.052	0.007	***	0.044	0.006	***
No visits to doctors	−0.163	0.043	***	0.024	0.025
5-9 visits to doctors	−0.083	0.031	***	−0.152	0.025	***
10-19 visits to doctors	−0.346	0.035	***	−0.512	0.033	***
20 or more visits to doctors	−0.651	0.054	***	−0.899	0.067	***
Local unemployment rate x 10	−0.620	0.135	***	−0.689	0.107	***
Social assistance spell began 1998	−0.075	0.044	*	−0.117	0.034	***
Social assistance spell began 1999	−0.162	0.052	***	−0.211	0.040	***
Social assistance spell began 2000	−0.047	0.058		−0.141	0.045	***
Social assistance spell began 2001	−0.236	0.062	***	−0.207	0.049	***
Social assistance spell began 2002	−0.267	0.064	***	−0.441	0.051	***
Social assistance spell began 2003	−0.355	0.061	***	−0.415	0.048	***
Duration 0–3 months	−5.432	0.153	***	−4.171	0.118	***
Duration 3–6 months	−6.168	0.154	***	−4.931	0.120	***
Duration 6–12 months	−6.406	0.152	***	−5.113	0.119	***
Duration 12–24 months	−6.751	0.151	***	−5.410	0.118	***
Duration 24- months	−7.033	0.150	***	−5.811	0.118	***

Note. ***, ** and * indicate significance at the 1%, 5% and 10% level, respectively. The last five variables are the duration dependent constant terms. See the note to Table 4 for reference categories of the explanatory variables.

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