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Table 4 Craigslist entry and pricing by competing employment websites

From: The impact of Craigslist’s entry on competing employment websites

Sample

A panel of employment websites (2005/06–2007/08)

 

National websites compete with Craigslist

National websites do not compete with Craigslist

Dependent variable

Fee for a day of job posting ($)

Fee for a month of access to CVs ($)

Fee for a day of CV posting ($)

Fee for a day of job posting ($)

Fee for a month of access to CVs ($)

Fee for a day of CV posting ($)

Measure of exposure

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Years since Craigslist’s entry

−2.413

−254.741

−0.002

−0.033

−35.228

0.001

 

(1.515)*

(199.591)

(0.010)

(0.160)

(56.968)

(0.002)

Number of job ads on Craigslist (in 1000)

0.009

75.921

0.000

0.044

−28.840***

0.000

 

(0.072)

(60.719)

(0.001)

(0.036)

(2.152)

(0.000)

Controls: website FE

Controls: year FE

Controls: website attributes

Controls: market attributes

Mean of dependent variable

3.363

263.992

0.003

3.363

263.992

0.003

Observations

180

82

184

180

82

184

Number of websites

90

41

92

90

41

92

  1. Standard errors clustered at the market level in parentheses
  2. *significant at 10 %; **significant at 5 %; ***significant at 1 %