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Table 7 Extension of the sample period (2000 through 2007)

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

Sample

Unbalanced panel of employment websites (2000–2007/08)

Dependent variable

Number of visitors (in 100,000) in a month

Number of page views per visitor per visit

Fee for a day of job posting ($)

Fee for a month of access to CVs ($)

Fee for a day of CV posting ($)

1 if discount offered to employers

1 if discount offered to job searchers

1 if bundling of CV access and job posting offered

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

Specification: national websites compete with Craigslist

      

 Years since Craigslist’s entry

5.016

4.076

1.230

104.697

0.003

−0.463

0.008

−0.081

 

(5.674)

(4.023)

(0.912)

(101.912)

(0.004)

(0.191)**

(0.013)

(0.076)

 Number of jobs ads on Craigslist (in 1000)

0.088

0.042

−0.064

−2.184

−0.000

−0.001

0.000

−0.002

 

(0.081)

(0.154)

(0.045)

(1.244)*

(0.000)***

(0.001)

(0.000)

(0.003)

Specification: national websites do not compete with Craigslist

     

 Years since Craigslist’s entry

3.237

−2.756

−0.863

37.842

−0.000

0.031

0.008

−0.072

 

(2.252)

(1.182)**

(0.889)

(55.191)

(0.001)

(0.078)

(0.005)*

(0.046)

 Number of jobs ads on Craigslist (in 1000)

0.501

−0.391

0.014

37.943

0.000

0.019

0.000

−0.010

 

(0.335)

(0.456)

(0.102)

(25.464)

(0.000)

(0.016)

(0.001)

(0.007)

Mean of dependent variable

9.210

16.840

4.042

240.086

0.004

0.548

0.040

0.246

Observations

231

547

603

314

344

465

353

643

  1. Standard errors clustered at the market level in parentheses
  2. *significant at 10 %; **significant at 5 %; ***significant at 1 %. Controls: see Table 3