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This chapter wraps up the discussion and analyses done in Chaps. 3–6. Each of the preceding four chapters has tackled a given explanatory factor leading to a specific hypothesis about the political participation of unemployed youth. This chapter pulls things together and compares the four alternative hypotheses. The information provided in the preceding chapters form the background for the analyses carried out in this chapter. While the previous chapters address the four hypotheses separately, here we bring the four hypotheses together in a full model so as to be able to control all the effects at the same time.
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Since, for the regression analysis, we have standardized all variables to range from 0 to 1, here marginal effects show how the predicted probability of the dependent variable changes as the independent variable changes from 0 to 1.
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We left out of the controls our two proxies for income (financial hardship and borrow money), as they are directly linked to the fact of being unemployed and are not antecedents. We should also note that we ran the analyses presented in the full models controlling for two political attitudes (political interest and political knowledge). The results did not change in any fundamental way.
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It should be noted that the pseudo R-squared is only an approximation of the explained variance for logistic regression models like the ones we have here.
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Giugni, M., Lorenzini, J. (2017). Putting the Pieces Together. In: Jobless Citizens . Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95142-0_7
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