Absenteeism, unemployment and employment protection legislation: evidence from Italy

Table 10 Robustness check IX: days of absence and regional unemployment in SHIW data

	(1)	(2)	(3)
	Private	Public	Private and public
Unemployment rate	-0.072**	0.020	-0.066**
	(0.030)	(0.034)	(0.030)
Public employee			-0.350
			(0.567)
(Unemployment rate)*(Public employee)			0.073
			(0.049)
Implied effect of unemployment on public employee			0.007
			(0.032)
Observations	25,011	9,540	34,551
Adjusted R²	0.009	0.010	0.009

Notes: SHIW dataset (waves 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002). The dependent variable is Days of Absence. OLS estimates. Further Controls: Small Firm, Female, Age, Age Squared, Years of Education, Married, Children age ≤5, Tenure, Year dummies. Standard errors are allowed for within region of work correlation. The symbols ***, **, * indicate that coefficients are statistically significant, respectively, at the 1, 5, and 10 percent level.