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Dube, Arindrajit - 2018

On-demand labor platforms make up a large part of the "gig economy." We quantify the extent of monopsony power in one of the largest on-demand labor platforms, Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), by measuring the elasticity of labor supply facing the requester (employer) using both observational and...

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The Empirical Economics of Online Attention

Boik, Andre - 2016

In several markets, firms compete not for consumer expenditure but instead for consumer attention. We model and characterize how households allocate their scarce attention in arguably the largest market for attention: the Internet. Our characterization of household attention allocation operates...

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Streaming Reaches Flood Stage : Does Spotify Stimulate or Depress Music Sales?

Aguiar, Luis - 2015

Streaming music services have exploded in popularity in the past few years, variously raising optimism and concern about their impacts on recorded music revenue. On the one hand, streaming services allow sellers to engage in bundling with the promise of increasing revenues, profits, and consumer...

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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?

Beaudry, Paul - 2000

Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …

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Expectations Hypotheses Tests

Bekaert, Geert - 2000

We investigate the Expectations Hypotheses of the term structure of interest rates and of the foreign exchange market using vector autoregressive methods for the U.S. dollar, Deutsche mark, and British pound interest rates and exchange rates. In addition to standard Wald tests, we formulate...

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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2000

In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the … bring convergence, labor flows would respond, enhancing overall efficiency. Yet net emigration from East Germany has fallen … from high levels in 1989-1990 to close to zero. Using state-level data for all of Germany, available from 1991-1996, I am …

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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999

quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An identical phenomenon is observed among men in West Germany in …

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Trade, Human Capital, and Income Risk

Deng, Liuchun; Krishna, Pravin; Senses, Mine Zeynep; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

human capital plays in this relationship using a rich, worker-level, longitudinal data set from Germany spanning 1976 to …

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Labor and Investment Demand at the Firm Level : A Comparison of French, German and U.S. Manufacturing, 1970-79

Mairesse, Jacques - 1985

We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment separately) differs in French, German and U.S. manufacturing, and has changed since the 1974-75 crisis. We use three consistent panel data samples of large firms for1970-79, and rely...

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Econometric Models for Count Data with an Application to the Patents-R&D Relationship

Hausman, Jerry A. - 1984

This paper focuses on developing and adapting statistical models of counts (non-negative integers) in the context of panel data and using them to analyze the relationship between patents and R&D expenditures. The model used is an application and generalization of the Poisson distribution to...

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