Absenteeism, unemployment and employment protection legislation: evidence from Italy

Table 4 Robustness check III: balanced panel

	(1)	(2)
Unemployment rate	-0.018**	-0.019**
	(0.008)	(0.008)
Small firm (≤15)	-0.328***	-0.367***
	(0.086)	(0.095)
Small firm* Unemployment rate	-0.020**	-0.024**
	(0.010)	(0.009)
Lag ln(Wage)		-0.687***
		(0.141)
Female	0.337***	0.192***
	(0.068)	(0.064)
Age	-0.088***	-0.065**
	(0.022)	(0.025)
Age squared	0.001***	0.001***
	(0.000)	(0.000)
Blue-Collar	0.557***	0.440***
	(0.090)	(0.082)
Tenure	0.031**	0.034**
	(0.014)	(0.015)
Tenure squared	-0.002**	-0.002**
	(0.001)	(0.001)
Actual experience	-0.032***	-0.025**
	(0.010)	(0.011)
Constant	2.779***	4.766***
	(0.424)	(1.150)
Observations	110,808	99,710

Notes: WHIP dataset. OLS estimates are reported. Further controls are the same used in Table 2. Standard errors are allowed for within provincial correlation. The symbols ***, **, * indicate that coefficients are statistically significant, respectively, at the 1, 5, and 10 percent level.