Research Article
Workforce Participation, Ageing, and Economic Welfare: New Empirical Evidence on Complex Patterns across the European Union
Table 4
Cronbach’s Alpha for the SEM models, EU–27, 1995–2018.
| Items | EU–1 panel | EU–2 panel | EU–3 panel | EU–4 panel | Item-test correlation | Alpha | Item-test correlation | Alpha | Item-test correlation | Alpha | Item-test correlation | Alpha |
| Log_EARN | 0.6791 | 0.7651 | 0.7834 | 0.8119 | 0.7293 | 0.8199 | 0.1624 | 0.8246 | Log_ALMP | 0.7990 | 0.7545 | 0.5726 | 0.8324 | 0.8508 | 0.8185 | 0.5808 | 0.7895 | Log_PLMP | 0.7954 | 0.7561 | 0.7444 | 0.8192 | 0.6355 | 0.8327 | 0.3309 | 0.8089 | Log_EDU_acq | 0.2780 | 0.8133 | 0.4689 | 0.8373 | 0.7718 | 0.8180 | 0.6840 | 0.7803 | Log_GERD | 0.7262 | 0.7665 | 0.5298 | 0.8351 | 0.8192 | 0.8112 | 0.7542 | 0.7601 | Log_Active_pop | 0.8369 | 0.7499 | 0.4255 | 0.8438 | 0.6832 | 0.8247 | 0.7033 | 0.7635 | Log_BR | 0.0382 | 0.8318 | 0.3135 | 0.8521 | 0.1252 | 0.8635 | 0.6466 | 0.7756 | Log_LE | 0.7565 | 0.7592 | 0.9170 | 0.7973 | 0.4746 | 0.8460 | 0.5419 | 0.7937 | Log_OD_65 | 0.0518 | 0.8328 | 0.7088 | 0.8206 | 0.7129 | 0.8235 | 0.5705 | 0.7840 | Log_ER_55_64 | 0.3059 | 0.8112 | 0.4796 | 0.8430 | 0.2736 | 0.8596 | 0.6189 | 0.7836 | Log_LP | 0.7123 | 0.7683 | 0.7285 | 0.8198 | 0.6349 | 0.8302 | 0.4643 | 0.7986 | Log_GDP_C | 0.6883 | 0.7707 | 0.8555 | 0.8044 | 0.6536 | 0.8298 | 0.7251 | 0.7653 | Log_POV_R_65 | 0.4881 | 0.7885 | 0.2255 | 0.8548 | 0.5990 | 0.8339 | 0.3859 | 0.8006 | Total scale | | 0.7980 | | 0.8407 | | 0.8434 | | 0.8012 |
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Source: own research.
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