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Applied Network Science

Table 4 The impact of education and work experience on skill relatedness and skill similarity

From: Global connections and the structure of skills in local co-worker networks

Dependent variable

Skill relatedness

Skill similarity

Work experiencea

Local

0.0868**

0.00995

 

(0.0419)

(0.00880)

Foreign

0.138

0.0113

 

(0.165)

(0.0275)

Educationa

Local

0.0434

0.00608

 

(0.0377)

(0.00790)

Foreign

− 0.296***

− 0.0438*

 

(0.113)

(0.0232)

N of connectionsb

− 0.0454***

− 0.0076***

 

(0.0090)

(0.0019)

Constant

− 0.0234

0.0223

 

(0.0847)

(0.0172)

Controlsc

Yes

Yes

Random effects

Individual (1)

0.0150***

0.000779***

 

(0.00342)

(0.000150)

Individual (2)

0.0768***

0.00204***

 

(0.0102)

(0.000260)

Dyad

0.215***

0.00327***

 

(0.00454)

(6.90e−05)

Observations (dyads)

4694

4694

  1. Coefficients (standard errors in parentheses) of linear probability models with clustered standard errors
  2. ***p ≤ 0.01; **p ≤ 0.05; *p ≤ 0.1
  3. aReference category: national
  4. bScale of N. of connections is 100 links
  5. cControls: work experience (years), type of job (junior professional, senior professional, or manager), sex, and firm size
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