Table 11 Effect of personality traits on NEET status – PSM Estimation Results by gender

From: Youth unemployment and personality traits

	Model 2			Model 3
	NEET	Core NEET	No. years NEET	NEET	Core NEET	No. years NEET
Girls
External locus of Control	0.079 (0.025)^**	0.043 (0.015)^**	0.128 (0.043)^**	0.052 (0.027)^**	0.033 (0.016)^**	0.100 (0.45)^**
High effort and diligence	−0.092 (0.017)^***	−0.035 (0.009)^***	−0.150 (0.028)^***	−0.082 (0.017)^***	−0.022 (0.008)^***	−0.118 (0.026)^***
Low Self-Esteem	0.102 (0.017)^**	0.0251 (0.010)^**	0.134 (0.028)^***	0.0763 (0.017)^**	0.011 (0.010)	.096 (0.028)^***
Boys
External locus of Control	0.069 (0.024)^***	0.049 (0.014)^***	0.138 (0.040)^***	0.025 (0.026)	0.019 (0.016)	0.042 (0.045)
High effort and diligence	−0.080 (0.019)^***	−0.039 (0.011)^***	−0.132 (0.031)^***	−0.068 (0.019)^***	−0.029 (0.009)^***	−0.106 (0.029)^***
Low Self- Esteem	0.107 (0.021)^***	0.044 (0.013)^***	0.176 (0.034)^***	0.127 (0.021)^***	0.040 (0.0128)^***	0.193 (0.034)^***
F stat (p-value)

Note: Std errors are in brackets. *indicates that the underlying coefficient is significant at 10% level, ** at 5% and ***at 1%. Additional variables included are listed at p. 12

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