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Table 3 OLS results of households’ level of participation in labor markets

From: Barriers to rural households’ participation in low-skilled off-farm labor markets: theory and empirical results from northern Ethiopia

Variable

Coefficeint

Std. err.

t-stat.

Distance to wereda headquarters

8.59E-02

0.15522

0.55342

Market access (good=1, 0=otherwise)

53.746

36.854

1.4584

Road access (good=1, 0=otherwise)

35.387

29.433

1.2023

Sex of household head (male =1, 0=female)

23.857

26.669

0.89458

Age of household head

−0.99506

0.8828

−1.1272

Consumer worker ratio

−1.2641

12.514

−0.10101

Education of household head

−41.503

29.904

−1.3879

Male labor in the household

36.513

15.879

2.2995**

Female labor in the household

37.203

18.398

2.0221**

No of oxen in the household

−1.5195

21.666

−7.01E-02

Total livestock unit holding

5.2178

7.3931

0.70577

Land owned

−14.395

19.041

−0.75603

Population density

11.254

39.971

0.28154

Estern zone

170.08

45.196

3.7632***

Central zone

69.434

27.751

2.5021***

Southern zone

154.9

52.347

2.9591***

Lamda (IMR)

193.07

19.556

9.8724***

Constant

−23.942

72.203

−0.33159

  1. **. p-value<5%.
  2. ***. p-value<1%.