The Role of Source- and Host-Country Characteristics in ... - CReAM

Table 2: Model 2 – Source-Country Characteristics
1 st -Generation 2 nd -Generation
Immigrants
Immigrants
ME StdE ME StdE
Age group (Ref.: Age 36-45)
Age 26-35 −0.057 (0.049) 0.001 (0.036)
Age 46-59 −0.116 † (0.032) −0.115 † (0.029)
Highest level of education (Ref.: Secd. education)
Primary eduction −0.138 † (0.033) −0.104 ∗ (0.057)
Tertiary education 0.065 ∗ (0.036) 0.100 ∗∗ (0.043)
Partner in household −0.133 † (0.032) 0.017 (0.029)
No. of children in household −0.051 ∗∗∗ (0.017) −0.087 † (0.015)
Youngest child 0-2 −0.200 ∗∗∗ (0.061) −0.118 (0.073)
Youngest child 3-5 −0.081 (0.057) −0.109 (0.083)
Years since migration (Ref.: > 20 years)
Less than 1 year −0.198 ∗ (0.113) – –
1 to 5 years −0.126 ∗∗ (0.059) – –
6 to 10 years −0.033 (0.055) – –
11 to 20 years 0.002 (0.041) – –
Migrated after age 18 −0.021 (0.049) – –
Speaks host-country language 0.084 ∗∗∗ (0.031) – –
Free movement of workers 0.171 ∗∗∗ (0.057) – –
Source-country characteristics
FLFP rate 0.003 ∗∗ (0.001) 0.003 (0.002)
Total fertility rate 0.033 (0.022) 0.073 (0.055)
GDP per capita −0.000 ∗∗ (0.000) −0.000 ∗ (0.000)
Average years of schooling 0.015 (0.013) −0.002 (0.010)
Relationship between source and host country
Same source-country migrants (in %) −0.029 (0.018) −0.006 (0.012)
Colonial ties 0.036 (0.040) 0.067 ∗∗ (0.032)
Geographic distance 0.006 (0.009) 0.003 (0.011)
Genetic distance 0.053 (0.044) −0.180 † (0.053)
Linguistic distance −0.000 (0.001) 0.001 (0.001)
Log likelihood -1678.1 -1042.1
Pseudo R 2 0.115 0.084
Observations 3869 2301
Notes: – Standard errors are clustered at the source-country level. – † p < 0.001; ∗∗∗ p < 0.01; ∗∗ p < 0.05; ∗ p < 0.1.
– Host-country population weights are applied.
32