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Hybrid (Solo)Self-Employment and Upskilling: Is Online Platform Work a Path Towards Entrepreneurship?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Ranieri, Antonio - 2022

The increasing use of online labour platforms as intermediaries for finding work – known as crowdwork or gig work – is a new form of 'hybrid' (solo)self-employment that hinges on the borders of dependent and self-employment. In this study we use a novel international dataset of online...

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College Attrition and the Dynamics of Information Revelation

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Maurel, Arnaud; … - 2023

We examine how informational frictions impact schooling and work outcomes. To do so, we estimate a dynamic structural model where individuals face uncertainty about their academic ability and productivity, which respectively determine their schooling utility and wages. Our framework accounts for...

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Crime and Human Capital in India

Sharma, Smriti; Sunder, Naveen - 2024

district-level data on the incidence of various types of crime with a nationally representative survey on learning achievement … the crime-learning gradient. We show that an increase in violent crime is associated with lower achievement in reading and … math, while non-violent crimes have no discernible correlation with learning outcomes. The effects are short-lived, driven …

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Individual Rationality and Learning: Welfare Expectations in East Germany Post-Reunification

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - 2002

In this paper we test the Rational Expectations hypothesis using longitudinal data on expectations and realizations of individual welfare for East Germans in the years following reunification. German reunification was unexpected and delivered a large shock to the future prospects of the...

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The Complexity of Economic Policy: I. Restricted Local Optima in Tax Policy Design

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e. the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...

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City air or city markets: productivity gains in urban areas

Krupka, Douglas J. - 2007

time spent in the urban environment (and thus learning), or job changes. The evidence suggests that both these processes …

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Information and beliefs in a repeated normal-form game

Fehr, Dietmar; Kübler, Dorothea; Danz, David - 2008

feedback as the main driving force of learning to play strategically and to form beliefs that accurately predict the behavior …

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Social Reciprocity

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004

We define social reciprocity as the act of demonstrating one's disapproval, at some personal cost, for the violation of widely-held norms (e.g., don't free ride). Social reciprocity differs from standard notions of reciprocity because social reciprocators intervene whenever a norm is violated...

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Don't give up on me baby: spousal correlation in smoking behaviour

Clark, Andrew E.; Etilé, Fabrice - 2005

in marriage over smoking, rather than bargaining within the couple or social learning. …

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Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work: From Tayloristic to holistic organization

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks and learning across tasks). We examine four driving forces behind this …

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