From: The impact of Craigslist’s entry on competing employment websites
Sample | Unbalanced panel of employment websites (2000–2007/08) | |||||||
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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 |