A Systems View Across Time and Space
Table 3 Determinants of employment growth-alternative ICT Indicator
From: Firm growth, exporting and information communication technology (ICT) in Southern Africa
Variables | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
lemployment | − 0.402*** | − 0.377*** | − 0.369*** | − 0.381*** |
(0.0327) | (0.0338) | (0.0338) | (0.0335) | |
lemployment_sq | 0.0440*** | 0.0401*** | 0.0398*** | 0.0410*** |
(0.00428) | (0.00441) | (0.00438) | (0.00435) | |
lage | 0.103*** | 0.107*** | 0.0888** | 0.0658* |
(0.0371) | (0.0388) | (0.0389) | (0.0392) | |
lage_sq | − 0.00731 | − 0.00684 | − 0.00462 | − 0.00281 |
(0.00563) | (0.00601) | (0.00601) | (0.00598) | |
exporter | 0.0687** | 0.0666** | 0.0663** | 0.0578* |
(0.0297) | (0.0310) | (0.0308) | (0.0307) | |
website | − 0.00336 | − 0.0258 | − 0.0162 | − 0.0286 |
(0.0236) | (0.0240) | (0.0242) | (0.0252) | |
ownership | 0.132*** | 0.143*** | 0.122*** | |
(0.0368) | (0.0382) | (0.0387) | ||
femmanager | − 0.00404 | − 0.00177 | 0.00536 | |
(0.0245) | (0.0244) | (0.0242) | ||
Company | − 0.154** | − 0.166** | ||
(0.0766) | (0.0760) | |||
Sole Proprietary | − 0.133** | − 0.159** | ||
(0.0645) | (0.0646) | |||
Partnership | − 0.203*** | − 0.216*** | ||
(0.0640) | (0.0637) | |||
Services | − 0.0241 | |||
(0.0247) | ||||
Eswatini | 0.140*** | |||
(0.0336) | ||||
Lesotho | 0.0221 | |||
(0.0334) | ||||
Constant | 0.566*** | 0.514*** | 0.679*** | 0.758*** |
(0.0711) | (0.0755) | (0.0982) | (0.101) | |
Observations | 789 | 721 | 721 | 721 |
R-squared | 0.198 | 0.200 | 0.217 | 0.238 |