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Transitions from offline to online labor markets : the relationship between freelancers' prior offline and online work experience
Seifried, Mareike - 2021
An emerging stream of research from various disciplines studies online labor market (OLM) platforms as an alternative way of accomplishing work compared to traditional (offline) labor markets. Although prior work has increased our understanding of how OLM platforms function, we so far know very...
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Career paths in online labor markets : same, same but different?
Seifried, Mareike; Jurowetzki, Roman; Kretschmer, Tobias - 2020
The emergence of online labor markets calls the validity of traditional career models into question. Given the volatility and digital nature of this environment, short-term employment relationships and heterogeneity of workers, employers and tasks in these markets, it is unclear how careers...
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Outside options drive wage inequalities in continuing jobs : evidence from a natural experiment
Lukesch, Veronika; Zwick, Thomas - 2021
The literature on wage bargaining so far mainly argues that unemployment benefits are relevant outside options for employees. This paper demonstrates that also a change in outside wage options drives wages in continuing jobs. The authors use the natural experiment of a crafts reform that reduces...
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Birthplace diversity and team performance
Brox, Enzo; Krieger, Tommy - 2019
We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that birthplace diversity increases the stock of available knowledge due to skill complementarities and decreases effciency due to communication barriers. The consequence of these two...
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Precocious inventors : early patenting success and lifetime inventive performance
Michlbauer, Theresa; Zwick, Thomas - 2021
This paper shows that inventors with an early patenting success have a higher inventive productivity during their … received for the first patent. The higher career productivity seems to be a consequence of higher individual ability rather … than cumulative advantage. Inventors with high productivity early in their career cannot increase their productivity …
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Top of the class : the importance of ordinal rank
Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2019 - This version: June 2019
This paper establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank during primary school has lasting impacts on secondary school achievement that are independent of underlying ability. Using data on the universe of English school students, we exploit naturally occurring...
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De-routinization in the fourth industrial revolution : firm-level evidence
Arntz, Melanie; Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, … - 2024
This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find...
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Productivity spillovers among knowledge workers in agglomerations : evidence from GitHub
El-Komboz, Lena Abou; Fackler, Thomas - 2023
cluster. Yet, most studies on the productivity effects of agglomerations measure innovation with patent data, thus capturing … alternative proxy for productivity, complementing the literature by covering a broad range of software engineering. With user … activity data covering the years 2015 to 2021, we relate cluster size to an individual's productivity. Our findings suggest …
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The 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize in contract theory
Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2017
Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström were awarded the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their fundamental contributions to contract theory. This article offers a short summary and discussion of their path breaking work.
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Two to tango? : psychological contract breach in online labor markets
Claussen, Jörg; Kretschmer, Tobias; Khashabi, Pooyan; … - 2020
Despite some advantages over traditional (offline) labor markets - such as lower search costs, better matching and improved monitoring - online labor markets (OLMs) have not taken off as initially expected. In this paper, we study the factors that limit perceived project success on OLMs. Using...
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