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Table 10 Estimates of determinants of the locus of control, robustness checks

From: Employment chances of immigrants and their children in Germany: does sense of personal control matter?

γ

Full age range (17–64)

10 items

Age

0.02**

0.08**

 

(0.02,0.02)

(0.067,0.09)

Gender

0.02

−0.02

 

(−0.04,0.08)

(−0.17,0.13)

Religion important

−0.07

−0.19**

 

(−0.13,0.00)

(−0.37,−0.02)

Low education in 1999

−0.02

0.05

 

(−0.10,0.07)

(−0.12,0.23)

High education in 1999

0.23**

0.01

 

(0.15,0.30)

(−0.23,0.25)

Father highly educated

0.10

−0.13

 

(−0.01,0.21)

(−0.38,0.11)

Mother highly educated

0.34**

0.30

 

(0.18,0.50)

(−0.01,0.60)

In education in 1999

0.34**

0.35**

 

(0.20,0.47)

(0.15,0.56)

Turkish immigrant

0.14

−0.00

 

(−0.18,0.45)

(−1.99,0.30)

Central European immigrant

0.18

0.01

 

(−0.15,0.50)

(−0.71,0.75)

EU 15 immigrant

0.57**

−0.36

 

(0.19,0.91)

(−1.35,0.61)

Turkish second generation

−0.26

−0.57**

 

(−0.51,0.01)

(−0.98,−0.16)

Central European second generation

0.29

0.24

 

(−0.08,0.64)

(−0.27,0.76)

EU15 second generation

0.16

−0.11

 

(−0.12,0.45)

(−0.58,0.38)

German second generation

−0.04

−0.05

 

(−0.19,0.11)

(−0.39,0.31)

Immigrant foreign language spoken at home

−0.77**

−0.53

 

(−1.02,−0.50)

(−1.25,0.20)

Sedond generation foreign language spoken at home

−0.17

−0.06

 

(−0.66,0.31)

(−0.89,0.75)

Time stayed in Germany

−0.02**

0.03

 

(−0.03,−0.01)

(−0.02,0.07)

  1. Note: 95 % Bayesian confidence intervals in brackets. These intervals contain 95 % of the posterior probability. If this interval contains 0, the effect measured by the parameter estimate is insignificant
  2. **Significance at this confidence level