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Does the Internet Increase the Job Finding Rate? Evidence from a Period of Internet Expansion

Denzer, Manuel - 2018

We examine the impact of household access to the internet on job finding rates in Germany during a period (2006 …-2009) in which internet access increased rapidly, and job-seekers increased their use of the internet as a search tool. During … this period, household access to the internet was almost completely dependent on connection to a particular technology (DSL …

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Workers in the Crowd : The Labour Market Impact of the Online Platform Economy

Cantarella, Michele - 2019

In this paper, we compare wages and labor market conditions of individuals engaged in online platform work and in traditional occupations by exploiting individual-level survey data on crowdworkers belonging to the largest micro-task marketplaces, focusing on evidence from the United States and...

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Working Conditions on Digital Labour Platforms : Evidence from a Leading Labour Supply Economy

Aleksynska, Mariya - 2019

Online labour platforms matching labour supply and demand are profoundly modifying the world of work. Businesses use them to outsource tasks to a world-wide pool of workers; while workers can access work opportunities transcending national boundaries. Increasingly, workers are located in...

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Downloading Wisdom from Online Crowds

Saiz, Albert; Simonsohn, Uri - 2021

The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number …

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Effects of an Online Self-Assessment Tool on Teachers' Digital Competencies

Abbiati, Giovanni; Azzolini, Davide; Balanskat, Anja; … - 2023

We evaluate the effects of an online self-assessment tool on teachers' competencies and beliefs about ICT in education. The causal impact of the tool is evaluated through a randomized encouragement design, involving 7,391 lower secondary teachers across 11 European countries. Short-run impact...

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Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet

Jolivet, Grégory - 2014

We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted … and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price …

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Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market

Benson, Alan - 2015

In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in which employers may decline to pay workers while keeping their work product. First, in an audit study of employers by a blinded worker, we find that working only for good...

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Quality and Price Setting of High-Tech Goods

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, Oleksandr; Nam Hoai Vu - 2021

This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and...

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Incentives Can Reduce Bias in Online Reviews

Marinescu, Ioana - 2018

Online reviews are a powerful means of propagating the reputations of products, services, and even employers. However, existing research suggests that online reviews often suffer from selection bias – people with extreme opinions are more motivated to share them than people with moderate...

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Effects of E-Commerce on Local Labor Markets

Bauer, Anahid; Fernández Guerrico, Sofía - 2023

This paper studies the effect of e-commerce on local labor markets. We exploit cross-market variation in e-commerce price advantage stemming from the enactment of the Amazon Tax-state-level legislation that mandates state sales taxes collection to out-of-state online retailers. Introducing...

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