Table 1 Summary statistics of training...

Table 1

Summary statistics of training participants vs. nonparticipants

Variables	Nonparticipants		Participants		H0: Equal means
Variables	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean	Std. Dev.	p-Value
Individual characteristics
Female	0.512	0.500	0.521	0.500	0.089
Age	42.830	10.467	43.381	9.794	0.000
East	0.186	0.389	0.212	0.409	0.000
Migrant	0.305	0.461	0.192	0.394	0.000
Married	0.638	0.481	0.652	0.476	0.005
Low Education	0.105	0.306	0.032	0.177	0.000
Medium Education	0.615	0.487	0.483	0.500	0.000
High Education	0.280	0.449	0.485	0.500	0.000
Job characteristics
Full Time	0.636	0.481	0.715	0.451	0.000
Part Time	0.262	0.440	0.256	0.436	0.165
Marginal Employment	0.074	0.261	0.015	0.122	0.000
Tenure at Employer	9.626	9.633	10.927	9.722	0.000
Self Employed	0.029	0.168	0.035	0.183	0.002
Apprenticeship	0.554	0.878	0.199	0.585	0.000
Firm Size small	0.176	0.381	0.108	0.310	0.000
Firm Size medium	0.353	0.478	0.300	0.458	0.000
Firm Size large	0.471	0.499	0.592	0.492	0.000
New Technology	0.176	0.381	0.308	0.462	0.000
Outcome variables
Hourly Wage in Euro	16.054	12.789	20.333	12.764	0.000
Job Change	0.155	0.362	0.126	0.332	0.000
Promotion	0.006	0.077	0.008	0.090	0.010
N	31,423		13,368

Variables	Nonparticipants		Participants		H0: Equal means
Variables	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean	Std. Dev.	p-Value
Individual characteristics
Female	0.512	0.500	0.521	0.500	0.089
Age	42.830	10.467	43.381	9.794	0.000
East	0.186	0.389	0.212	0.409	0.000
Migrant	0.305	0.461	0.192	0.394	0.000
Married	0.638	0.481	0.652	0.476	0.005
Low Education	0.105	0.306	0.032	0.177	0.000
Medium Education	0.615	0.487	0.483	0.500	0.000
High Education	0.280	0.449	0.485	0.500	0.000
Job characteristics
Full Time	0.636	0.481	0.715	0.451	0.000
Part Time	0.262	0.440	0.256	0.436	0.165
Marginal Employment	0.074	0.261	0.015	0.122	0.000
Tenure at Employer	9.626	9.633	10.927	9.722	0.000
Self Employed	0.029	0.168	0.035	0.183	0.002
Apprenticeship	0.554	0.878	0.199	0.585	0.000
Firm Size small	0.176	0.381	0.108	0.310	0.000
Firm Size medium	0.353	0.478	0.300	0.458	0.000
Firm Size large	0.471	0.499	0.592	0.492	0.000
New Technology	0.176	0.381	0.308	0.462	0.000
Outcome variables
Hourly Wage in Euro	16.054	12.789	20.333	12.764	0.000
Job Change	0.155	0.362	0.126	0.332	0.000
Promotion	0.006	0.077	0.008	0.090	0.010
N	31,423		13,368

Note(s): The last column refers to a t-test on the equality of means for the nonparticipants and participants

Source(s): Authors’ own work