Potential migration and subjective well-being in Europe

Lovo, Stefania

doi:10.1186/s40176-014-0024-5

Table 6 Characteristics of potential migrants

From: Potential migration and subjective well-being in Europe

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)^a
Age	0.115^**	0.080	-0.107^**	-0.218^***	-0.119^**	-0.066	-0.252^***	-0.948^***
	(0.046)	(0.055)	(0.055)	(0.068)	(0.059)	(0.112)	(0.087)	(0.089)
Age squared	-0.652^***	-0.623^***	-0.443^***	-0.327^***	-0.446^***	-0.548^***	-0.257^***	0.416^***
	(0.051)	(0.060)	(0.059)	(0.073)	(0.064)	(0.120)	(0.094)	(0.083)
Employed (d)	-0.012^***	-0.012^***	-0.007^**	-0.008^**	-0.005	-0.011^*	-0.003	-0.003
	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.006)	(0.006)	(0.006)
Male (d)	0.030^***	0.028^***	0.025^***	0.026^***	0.026^***	0.030^***	0.021^***	0.025^***
	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.004)	(0.003)	(0.006)	(0.005)	(0.005)
Corruption	0.076^***	0.077^***	0.071^***	0.072^***	0.074^***	0.057^***	0.066^***	0.071^***
	(0.003)	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.005)	(0.004)	(0.008)	(0.006)	(0.006)
Married (d)	-0.031^***	-0.025^***	-0.021^***	-0.021^***	-0.020^***	-0.026^***	-0.021^***	-0.023^***
	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.004)	(0.003)	(0.006)	(0.005)	(0.005)
Children	-0.005^***	-0.005^***	-0.006^***	-0.005^***	-0.006^***	-0.003	-0.003	-0.004
	(0.001)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)
Secondary educ (d)	0.018^***	0.026^***	0.033^***	0.032^***	0.030^***	0.035^***	0.035^***	0.029^***
	(0.004)	(0.005)	(0.005)	(0.006)	(0.005)	(0.009)	(0.007)	(0.007)
Beyond secondary (d)	0.031^***	0.037^***	0.052^***	0.052^***	0.049^***	0.050^***	0.046^***	0.038^***
	(0.005)	(0.006)	(0.007)	(0.008)	(0.007)	(0.013)	(0.011)	(0.009)
Log of income		-0.051^**	-0.048^**	-0.077^***	-0.055^**	0.014	-0.063^*	-0.071^*
		(0.021)	(0.022)	(0.026)	(0.023)	(0.043)	(0.033)	(0.043)
Log of income squared		0.002^**	0.003^**	0.004^***	0.003^**	-0.000	0.003^*	0.004
		(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)
Life satisfaction			-0.018^***	-0.016^***	-0.019^***	-0.020^***	-0.015^***	-0.017^***
			(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.002)	(0.001)	(0.001)
Economy gets better (d)				-0.018^***			-0.016^***	-0.018^***
				(0.005)			(0.006)	(0.006)
City gets better (d)				-0.023^***			-0.022^***	-0.024^***
				(0.004)			(0.005)	(0.006)
Life in 5 year					-0.001
					(0.001)
Optimistic (d)						-0.018^***
						(0.006)
Family abroad (d)							0.096^***	0.105^***
							(0.008)	(0.008)
Country	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Year	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Observations	78541	57532	57214	37094	52181	16007	21614	21614

Logit results. Marginal effects; Standard errors in parentheses. (d) indicates discrete change of dummy variable from 0 to 1 ^aOLS results. ^*p < 0.1, ^**p < 0.05, ^***p < 0.01.

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