a quasi-experiment on a well-known online crowdsourcing platform. We show that a worker’s performance varies with …, we find that workers’ performance in online microtasks is positively related to extraversion and agreeableness. The …

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … switch from entrepreneurship to workers, while education does not explain, in a statistically significant level, switching …

community, including workers, managers and owners of the formal as well as of the informal economy, on how environmental …

theory. This working paper surveys the literature on the impact of international trade on firms and workers, presenting the …

This study analyses the experience of key workers in Ghana during the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyses their working … increased demands caused by the crisis. The study finds that some frontline workers have had an increase in work pressure, while … other categories of workers, particularly in the informal economy, experienced a decrease in work pressure as demand for …

workers worldwide. Within this framework, we estimate the effects of weather conditions on daily commuting and travel choices … workers, finding significant relationships between daily weather conditions, commuting time, and travel choices. Rainy days …

-level results show that directly-affected workers (e.g., bluecollar workers performing routine or replaceable tasks) face lower … earnings and employment rates, while other workers indirectly gain from robot adoption. We also find that the negative effects … from competitors' robot adoption load on directly-affected workers, while other workers benefit from this industry …