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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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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019
allow SES to influence both the level of parental time and parenting style investments, as well as the productivity of the …
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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2023
Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but also render teams' identity and image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non-routine task and identify the importance of these...
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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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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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Defying gravity : what drives productivity in remote teams?
Fackler, Thomas; Hofmann, Michael; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2023
find that the pandemic reduced the productivity of previously co-located teams substantially, whereas similar teams with … online communication can help mitigate productivity loss. …
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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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