The green potential of occupations in Switzerland

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Table 3 Association between Implicit Emission Tax and Employment

	Dependent variable
	log(\( {\text{employment}}_{i,j,t}\))
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Implicit emission \({\text{tax}}_{j,t}\) \(\times \)	0.0626\(^{**}\)	0.0649\(^{***}\)	0.0655\(^{***}\)	0.0573\(^{**}\)
Green potential \(\hat{\eta }_i\)	(0.0245)	(0.0247)	(0.0251)	(0.0240)
Implicit emission \({\text{tax}}_{j,t}\)	\(\checkmark \)			\(\checkmark \)
Occupation fixed effects	\(\checkmark \)	\(\checkmark \)	\(\checkmark \)
Industry fixed effects	\(\checkmark \)	\(\checkmark \)	\(\checkmark \)	\(\checkmark \)
Year dummies	\(\checkmark \)	\(\checkmark \)	\(\checkmark \)	\(\checkmark \)
Year-industry fixed effects		\(\checkmark \)	\(\checkmark \)
Year-occupation fixed effects			\(\checkmark \)
log(labour productivity)				\(\checkmark \)
3-digit ISCO time trends				\(\checkmark \)
Observations	22,642	22,642	22,642	22,642
Pseudo-\({R}^{2}\)	0.0691	0.0698	0.0422	0.0695

The sample is an unbalanced panel covering 37 Swiss industries between 2008 and 2017. The dependent variable in all columns is the log of occupational employment. All model specifications include fixed effects for industries and years. Columns (1), (2) and (3) further include occupation fixed effects. Columns (1) and (4) additionally include the implicit emission tax. Columns (2) and (3) additionally contain yearly occupation and industry fixed effects. Furthermore, column (4) contains the labour productivity at the industry level in logarithmic form and occupation time trends. 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: \(^{*}p<0.1\); \(^{**}p<0.05\); \(^{***}p<0.01\)