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Table 4 Linear regressions of changes in employment status on trade differences using individual fixed effects

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

Dependent variable: change in employment status

 

Trade first differences

Trade first differences, lagged

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Imports, total

0.013

 

− 0.009

 
 

(0.018)

 

(0.015)

 

Exports, total

− 0.025

 

0.010

 
 

(0.015)

 

(0.007)

 

Imports, final prod., north

 

0.008

 

0.002

  

(0.014)

 

(0.015)

Imports, interm. prod., north

 

− 0.004

 

− 0.005*

  

(0.004)

 

(0.003)

Imports, final prod., south

 

− 0.000

 

0.004**

  

(0.001)

 

(0.001)

Imports, interm. prod., south

 

0.002

 

0.004**

  

(0.003)

 

(0.001)

Exports, final prod., north

 

− 0.004

 

− 0.002

  

(0.010)

 

(0.013)

Exports, interm. prod., north

 

− 0.001

 

− 0.010

  

(0.005)

 

(0.008)

Exports, final prod., south

 

− 0.002

 

0.004

  

(0.003)

 

(0.004)

Exports, interm. prod., south

 

0.004***

 

0.007**

  

(0.001)

 

(0.003)

Constant

0.104***

0.104***

0.103***

0.101***

 

(0.013)

(0.014)

(0.014)

(0.014)

Number of observations

20,878

19,391

20,866

19,380

Adjusted R2

0.045

0.045

0.045

0.048

  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