Youth unemployment and personality traits

Table 2 Descriptive statistics of outcome variables by personality traits

	Whole sample	External locus of Control	Low self-esteem	High level of effort and diligence
NEET in w4-7	0.16 (0.37)	0.24 (0.42)[0.00]	0.23 (0.42)[0.00]	0.08 (0.27) [0.00]
NEET for 2+ years	0.05 (0.21)	0.09 (0.29)[0.00]	0.069 (0.025)[0.00]	0.015 (0.13)[0.00]
No. years NEET
0	0.84 (0.36)	0.76 (0.43)[0.00]	0.77 (0.42)[0.00]	0.92 (0.27)[0.00]
1	0.11 (0.31)	0.15 (0.36)[0.00]	0.16 (0.37)[0.00]	0.06 (0.25)[0.00]
2	0.03 (0.17)	0.06 (0.23)[0.00]	0.04 (0.20)[0.00]	0.011 (0.10)[0.00]
3	0.01 (0.10)	0.02 (0.15)[0.00]	0.02 (0.13)[0.03]	0.003 (0.06)[0.00]
4	0.004 (0.06)	0.006 (0.08)[0.39]	0.005 (0.07)[0.40]	0.001 (0.03)[0.02]

Note: Standard Deviations in brackets. P values for tests of significant differences between NEET rate in the whole sample and NEET rate with a specific personality trait are reported in square brackets