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Sendemails : An Automated Email Package with Multiple Applications

Fumarco, Luca; Gaddis, S. Michael; Sarracino, Francesco; … - 2023

Stata through PowerShell, which is open-source and cross-platform. Researchers can use this package to perform several email …

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The Cost Impact of Spam Filters : Measuring the Effect of Information System Technologies in Organizations

Caliendo, Marco; Clement, Michel; Papies, Dominik; … - 2021

More than 70% of global e-mail traffic consists of unsolicited and commercial direct marketing, also known as spam …. Dealing with spam incurs high costs for organizations, prompting efforts to try to reduce spam-related costs by installing … spam filters. Using modern econometric methods to reduce the selection bias of installing a spam filter, we deploy a unique …

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Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires?

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Lochner, Benjamin; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2021

This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. We combine data on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy data. Results show that internet availability has no major impact on the stability of new...

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Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2018

This paper studies effects of the introduction of a new digital mass medium on reemployment of unemployed job seekers. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local level with individual register data on the unemployed in Germany. We address endogeneity by...

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The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation

Wang, Tianyi - 2023

Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...

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Telecommunications Dynamics, Output and Employment

Jungmittag, Andre - 2014

In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic production function is the analytical starting point...

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ICT Use in the Developing World : An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie David; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2021

Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries and across developing countries. To identify the...

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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement,and Competitive Pressure

Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, priorstudies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technologyand continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements andmodifications made upon the existing...

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Informality as a Stepping Stone:Entrepreneurial Entry in a Developing Economy

Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We model decisions with respect to formality or informality for entrepreneurs in a newindustry for a developing economy. We show that informality allows a leader to explore,without significant sunk costs, the potential profitability of the industry; that is, informality maybe a stepping stone,...

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Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development

Amodio, Francesco; Medina, Pamela; Morlacco, Monica - 2022

This paper shows that self-employment opportunities shape the market power of employers in low-income countries, with implications for industrial development. Using data from Peru, we document substantial employer concentration and high self-employment rates across manufacturing local labor...

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