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Table 3 Linear regressions of changes in employment status on trade levels using individual fixed effects

From: International trade and unemployment: towards an investigation of the Swiss case

Dependent variable: change in employment status

 

Trade levels

Trade levels, lagged

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Imports, total

0.016

 

− 0.002

 
 

(0.022)

 

(0.019)

 

Exports, total

− 0.036*

 

0.004

 
 

(0.018)

 

(0.013)

 

Imports, final prod., north

 

0.013

 

0.003

  

(0.014)

 

(0.015)

Imports, interm. prod., north

 

− 0.003

 

0.006*

  

(0.005)

 

(0.003)

Imports, final prod., south

 

0.002

 

0.008***

  

(0.003)

 

(0.003)

Imports, interm. prod., south

 

0.002

 

− 0.000

  

(0.006)

 

(0.003)

Exports, final prod., north

 

− 0.002

 

0.001

  

(0.012)

 

(0.013)

Exports, interm. prod., north

 

− 0.019*

 

− 0.012

  

(0.009)

 

(0.009)

Exports, final prod., south

 

− 0.009

 

0.001

  

(0.008)

 

(0.006)

Exports, interm. prod., south

 

0.010**

 

− 0.001

  

(0.004)

 

(0.004)

Constant

0.149***

0.118***

0.100**

0.102**

 

(0.044)

(0.028)

(0.043)

(0.045)

Number of observations

20,928

19,438

20,895

19,406

Adjusted R2

0.045

0.047

0.045

0.047

  1. Note: All regressions including time and individual fixed effects
  2. Source: Panel data set constructed using data from FOS (2009a), EZV (2009), KOF (2005) and FOS (2009b)
  3. *p < 0.10, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01