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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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Minimum Global Tax : Winners and Losers in the Race for Mergers and Acquisitions

Amendolagine, Vito; Bruno, Randolph; Cipollina, Maria; … - 2023

This study aims to quantify the impact of the global minimum corporate tax rate a pillar of the OECD's reform of international taxation on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving large multinational enterprises (MNEs). First, the influence of differences in capital taxation on...

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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...

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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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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 of documents written about different topics? We propose, based on the premise that the occurrence of a phenomenon increases the likelihood that people write about it, that the...

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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 … workers of Ukraine, which in 2013-2017 occupied the first place in Europe, and the fourth place in the world in terms of the …

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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 dispersion among adverts for the same product. We also show...

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Mergers and Birth Outcomes : Evidence from Maternity Ward Closures

Avdic, Daniel - 2018

Evidence suggests that hospital mergers can reduce costs but less is known about their effects on patient outcomes. We study how a wave of mergers that led to the shutdown of one third of all Swedish maternity wards affected the health of mothers who gave birth and their newborns. Applying a...

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Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration

Marinescu, Ioana - 2020

.9%, as hypothesized by monopsony theory. Based on a simple merger simulation, we find that a merger between the top two …

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