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Quality and price setting of high-tech goods

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, Oleksandr; Nam Hoai Vu - 2021

This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and...

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Effects of e-commerce on local labor markets

Bauer, Anahid; Fernández Guerrico, Sofia - 2023

This paper studies the effect of e-commerce on local labor markets. We exploit cross-market variation in e-commerce price advantage stemming from the enactment of the Amazon Tax-state-level legislation that mandates state sales taxes collection to out-of-state online retailers. Introducing...

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The internet as a data source for advancement in social sciences

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015

This paper advocates the use of Internet data for social sciences with a special focus on human resources issues. It discusses the potentials and challenges of Internet data for social sciences and presents a selection of the relevant literature to establish the wide spectrum of topics, which...

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Consumer search costs and preferences on the internet

Jolivet, Grégory; Turon, Hélène - 2014

We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price dispersion among adverts for the same product. We also show...

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Labour market effects of digital matching platforms : experimental evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Jones, Sam; Sen, Kunal - 2022

Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...

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Workers in the crowd : the labour market impact of the online platform economy

Cantarella, Michele; Strozzi, Chiara - 2019

In this paper, we compare wages and labor market conditions of individuals engaged in online platform work and in traditional occupations by exploiting individual-level survey data on crowdworkers belonging to the largest micro-task marketplaces, focusing on evidence from the United States and...

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Working conditions on digital labour platforms : evidence from a leading labour supply economy

Aleksynska, Mariya; Bastrakova, Anastasia; Kharchenko, … - 2019

Online labour platforms matching labour supply and demand are profoundly modifying the world of work. Businesses use … them to outsource tasks to a world-wide pool of workers; while workers can access work opportunities transcending national … workers of Ukraine, which in 2013-2017 occupied the first place in Europe, and the fourth place in the world in terms of the …

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Mapping "information economy" businesses with big data : findings for the UK

Nathan, Max; Rosso, Anna; Bouet, Francois - 2014

Governments around the world want to develop their ICT and digital industries. Policymakers thus need a clear sense of …

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On the validity of using webpage texts to identify the target population of a survey : an application to detect online platforms

Daas, Piet J. H.; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Klijs, Bart - 2023

A statistical classification model was developed to identify online platform organizations based on the texts on their website. The model was subsequently used to identify all (potential) platform organizations with a website included in the Dutch Business Register. The empirical outcomes of the...

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Online versus in-person services : effects on patients and providers

Dahlstrand-Rudin, Amanda; Le Nestour, Nestor; Michaels, Guy - 2024

Online delivery of one-to-one services offers potential cost savings and increased convenience, yet relatively little is known about its impacts on providers and consumers. This paper studies the online delivery of healthcare, focusing on primary care doctor consultations. We use novel data from...

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