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Table 9 Association between implicit emission tax and employment: varying time span and industries

From: The green potential of occupations in Switzerland

 

Dependent variable

 

log(\({\text {employment}}_{i,j,t}\))

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

 

2008–

2013–

15 industries

15 industries

 

2012

2017

Highest \(\Delta \tau _{2008{-}2017}\)

Lowest \(\Delta \tau _{2008{-}2017}\)

Implicit emission \({\text {tax}}_{j,t}\) \(\times \)

0.0668\(^{***}\)

0.0645\(^{**}\)

0.0927\(^{***}\)

0.0586

Green potential \(\hat{\eta }_i\)

(0.0254)

(0.0259)

(0.0360)

(0.0544)

Occupation fixed effects

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Industry fixed effects

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Year dummies

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Year-industry fixed effects

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Year-occupation fixed effects

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Observations

11,059

11,583

7616

7926

Pseudo-\({\text {R}}^{2}\)

0.0377

0.0378

0.0196

0.0044

  1. The dependent variable in all columns is the log of occupational employment. All model specifications include fixed effects for occupations, industries and years. In addition, yearly industry and occupation fixed effects are considered. Column (1) shows an unbalanced panel covering 37 Swiss industries between 2008 and 2012 and column (2) between 2013 and 2017. Column (3) contains a subset of the 15 industries exhibiting the largest incremental increase in the implicit tax rate between 2008 and 2017 and column (4) a subset of the 15 industries with the lowest incremental increase between 2008 and 2017. Data are from the FSO and the SLFS. Standard errors in parentheses are clustered at the industry level. Significance levels for the coefficients are indicated as: \(^{*}p <0.1\); \(^{**}p <0.05\); \(^{***}p <0.01\)