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Askitas, Nikos - 2012

often obstructed by insufficient lagged data. This paper evaluates search intensity for "hardship letter" from Google …

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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting

Askitas, Nikos - 2012

The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword...

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COVID-19 and the Future of Us Fertility : What Can We Learn from Google?

Wilde, Joshua; Chen, Wei; Lohmann, Sophie - 2021

We use data from Google Trends to predict the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on future births in the United States …. First, we show that periods of above-normal search volume for Google keywords relating to conception and pregnancy in US …-validation criteria.Third, we use data on Google searches during the COVID-19 pandemic to predict changes in aggregate fertility rates in …

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Health and Well-Being in the Crisis

Askitas, Nikos - 2011

The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...

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Calling the Greek Referendum on the Nose with Google Trends

Askitas, Nikos - 2015

.Using Google Trends I could tap into voters' true and unbiased revealed preferences and nowcast hourly what the ratio of the No …

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Covid-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being : Evidence from Google Trends

Brodeur, Abel - 2020

of the virus, they may result in substantial damage to population well-being. We use Google Trends data to test whether …

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Incentives, Search Engines, and the Elicitation of Subjective Beliefs : Evidence from Representative Online Survey Experiments

Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2019

A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise randomized experiments in a representative online survey to investigate whether incentivizing belief accuracy affects stated beliefs about average earnings by professional degree...

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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth

Aghion, Philippe; Askenazy, Philippe; Bourlès, Renaud; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities andemployment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECDcountries...

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Training, Worker Mobility, and Employer Coordination

Martins, Pedro S.; Thomas, Jonathan P. - 2022

This paper presents a new model of firms' decisions on training in a context of potential worker mobility. Such worker mobility can be influenced by employers coordination, namely through the operation of no-poach agreements and employers' associations (EAs). We then present supporting evidence...

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Non-Compete Agreements in a Rigid Labour Market : The Case of Italy

Boeri, Tito; Garnero, Andrea; Luisetto, Lorenzo G. - 2023

Non-compete clauses (NCCs) limiting the mobility of workers have been found to be rather widespread in the US, a flexible labour market with large turnover rates and a limited coverage of collective bargaining. This paper explores the presence of such arrangements in a rigid labour market, with...

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