A Systems View Across Time and Space
Table 2 Main results-determinants of employment growth
From: Firm growth, exporting and information communication technology (ICT) in Southern Africa
Variables | (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 4 | Model 5 | Model 6 | |
Lemployment | − 0.405*** | − 0.403*** | − 0.420*** | − 0.401*** | − 0.389*** | − 0.403*** |
(0.0320) | (0.0319) | (0.0319) | (0.0332) | (0.0332) | (0.0329) | |
Lemployment_sq | 0.0447*** | 0.0441*** | 0.0453*** | 0.0421*** | 0.0415*** | 0.0426*** |
(0.00422) | (0.00422) | (0.00419) | (0.00434) | (0.00431) | (0.00428) | |
Lage | 0.107*** | 0.102*** | 0.103*** | 0.105*** | 0.0869** | 0.0581 |
(0.0370) | (0.0369) | (0.0366) | (0.0383) | (0.0384) | (0.0386) | |
Lage_sq | − 0.00794 | − 0.00723 | − 0.00700 | − 0.00673 | − 0.00444 | − 0.00206 |
(0.00562) | (0.00561) | (0.00556) | (0.00596) | (0.00595) | (0.00590) | |
Exporter | 0.0684** | 0.0626** | 0.0572* | 0.0570* | 0.0487 | |
(0.0294) | (0.0291) | (0.0305) | (0.0303) | (0.0302) | ||
0.103*** | 0.0921*** | 0.0956*** | 0.104*** | |||
(0.0258) | (0.0266) | (0.0266) | (0.0270) | |||
Ownership | 0.128*** | 0.145*** | 0.116*** | |||
(0.0364) | (0.0379) | (0.0383) | ||||
Femmanager | − 0.00040 | 0.00127 | 0.00858 | |||
(0.0243) | (0.0241) | (0.0239) | ||||
Company | − 0.151** | − 0.169** | ||||
(0.0758) | (0.0751) | |||||
Sole Proprietary | − 0.112* | − 0.145** | ||||
(0.0640) | (0.0639) | |||||
Partnership | − 0.193*** | − 0.212*** | ||||
(0.0634) | (0.0630) | |||||
Services | − 0.0224 | |||||
(0.0244) | ||||||
Eswatini | 0.141*** | |||||
(0.0330) | ||||||
Lesotho | 0.0609* | |||||
(0.0327) | ||||||
Constant | 0.574*** | 0.568*** | 0.527*** | 0.485*** | 0.628*** | 0.713*** |
(0.0707) | (0.0706) | (0.0707) | (0.0753) | (0.0983) | (0.100) | |
Observations | 792 | 792 | 792 | 723 | 723 | 723 |
R-squared | 0.193 | 0.198 | 0.214 | 0.212 | 0.230 | 0.253 |