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Recruitment Policies, Job-Filling Rates and Matching Efficiency

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2020

Recruitment behavior is important for the matching process in the labor market. Using unique linked survey …-administrative data, we explore the relationships between hiring and recruitment policies. Faster hiring goes along with higher search … directed search model in which firms use different recruitment margins in response to productivity shocks. The calibrated model …

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Estimating Labor Market Slack, U.S. 1994-2019

Komlos, John - 2019

U3, the official unemployment rate, is an inadequate gauge of labor-market slack and the extent to which it misinforms varies substantially over the business cycle. The U6 unemployment rate is usually about 4 percentage points above U3. However, during the Great Recession it exceeded U3 by 7...

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A Congestion Theory of Unemployment Fluctuations

Mercan, Yusuf; Schoefer, Benjamin; Sedlácek, Petr - 2021

In recessions, unemployment increases despite the—perhaps counterintuitive—fact that thenumber of unemployed workers finding jobs expands. On net, unemployment rises only becauseeven more workers lose their jobs. We propose a theory of unemployment fluctuations resting onthis...

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Selection, Consumption, and New Music Exploration in an Online Social Network : A Dyadic Approach

Loh, Johannes - 2022

We study peer influence in an online social network on a platform where consumers purchase music albums. They can follow their peers and become informed about their consumption choices. In particular, we are interested in how this affects consumers’ exploration of new music that exhibits...

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Gender Stereotypes in User-Generated Content

Kerkhof, Anna; Reich, Valentin Ferdinand Michael - 2023

Gender stereotypes pose an important hurdle on the way to gender equality. It is difficult to quantify the problem, though, as stereotypical beliefs are often subconscious or not openly expressed. User-generated content (UGC) opens up novel opportunities to overcome such challenges, as the...

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Detecting Coverage Bias in User-Generated Content

Kerkhof, Anna; Munster, Johannes - 2021

The importance of user-generated content is growing as media consumption is moving online; yet, investigations of media bias on user-generated content platforms are rare. We develop a novel procedure to detect coverage bias – i.e., bias in the amount of coverage certain topics or issues receive...

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International Trade and Social Connectedness

Bailey, Michael - 2020

We use anonymized data from Facebook to construct a new measure of the pairwise social connectedness between 180 countries and 332 European regions. We find that two countries trade more with each other when they are more socially connected and when they share social connections with a similar...

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The Geographic Spread of COVID-19 Correlates with Structure of Social Networks as Measured by Facebook

Kuchler, Theresa - 2020

We use anonymized and aggregated data from Facebook to show that areas with stronger social ties to two early COVID-19 "hotspots" (Westchester County, NY, in the U.S. and Lodi province in Italy) generally have more confirmed COVID-19 cases as of March 30, 2020. These relationships hold after...

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Politics in the Facebook Era - Evidence from the 2016 US Presidential Elections

Liberini, Federica - 2020

Through social media, politicians can personalize their campaigns and target specific groups of voters with an unprecedented precision. We assess the effects of such political micro-targeting by exploiting daily advertising prices on Facebook during the 2016 US presidential campaign. We measure...

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Global Spillovers of Taxation in the Online Advertising Market. Theory and Evidence from Facebook

Lassmann, Andrea - 2020

We analyze the effect and welfare implications of taxing multinational digital platforms on the global online advertising market. Using a novel dataset on advertising prices and product preferences of users from Facebook in OECD countries, jointly with international trade data, we show that an...

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