Table 3.
Main effect of unemployment on health.
| Variables | Main effect: Two-class | Main effect: Four-class | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Male | Female | Total | Male | Female | |
| Unemployed | −0.118 *** | −0.166 *** | −0.089 *** | |||
| (0.011) | (0.020) | (0.014) | ||||
| Unemployed for 0–2 years | −0.132 *** | −0.162 *** | −0.108 *** | |||
| (0.017) | (0.029) | (0.022) | ||||
| Unemployed for 3–5 years | −0.157 *** | −0.176 *** | −0.129 *** | |||
| (0.030) | (0.047) | (0.038) | ||||
| Unemployed for 6–8 years | −0.242 *** | −0.389 *** | −0.119* | |||
| (0.051) | (0.082) | (0.066) | ||||
| Informal | 0.038 *** | 0.039 *** | 0.038 *** | 0.024 *** | 0.019* | 0.030 ** |
| (0.007) | (0.009) | (0.010) | (0.008) | (0.011) | (0.013) | |
| Formal | −0.001 | −0.001 | −0.002 | −0.026 | −0.001 | −0.064 ** |
| (0.014) | (0.016) | (0.024) | (0.017) | (0.019) | (0.031) | |
| Observations | 25,276 | 11,730 | 13,546 | 15,960 | 7,930 | 8,030 |
| R-squared | 0.065 | 0.059 | 0.075 | 0.093 | 0.082 | 0.109 |
| Respondents | 7,577 | 3,428 | 4,149 | 6,548 | 3,115 | 3,433 |
The table controls for age, income (logarithm), number of chronic diseases, whether they live in the city, marital status, whether their parents are alive, number of living siblings, number of living children, whether they live with their children, whether they have experienced child bereavement, whether they have private insurance, income, whether they smoke, whether they drink, and number of chronic diseases. The standard deviation in parentheses. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1 (the same below). Bold values in regression indicate statistically significant coefficients (P value < 0.05).