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With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper … focuses on methodological issues arising from the usage of online job vacancy data and voluntary web-based surveys to analyse … the labour market. In addition to providing a comprehensive review of the literature based on online data, we highlight …
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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 …
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job offers posted online in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The results show that the student labour market is quite …
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One potential channel through which the effects of the minimum wage could be directed is that firms who employ minimum wage workers could pass on any resulting higher labour costs in the form of higher prices. This study looks at the effects of the introduction and subsequent uprating of the...
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diffusion of internet access in the late 1990's. Which types of persons incorporated the internet into their job search strategy … internet job search derived from the December 1998 and August 2000 CPS Computer and Internet Supplements, matched with job … search outcomes from subsequent CPS files. We find that internet searchers are positively selected on observables, but …
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During COVID school closures, learning become mostly restricted to young people who had internet access at home. This … paper examines internet access in India using National Sample Survey 2017-18. It probes the extent of inequality in young … people's internet access across gender, caste, religion, rural-urban sector, private-public schools, and income group. Our …
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How does the internet affect young people's mental health? We study this question in the context of Italy using … combine with information on the availability of highspeed internet at the municipal level. Our identification strategy … previously irrelevant but became salient after the advent of the internet. We find that access to high-speed internet has a …
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This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. We combine data … on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy data. Results show that internet … explicitly comparing match outcomes of online and non-online recruits. Further results show that online recruiting not only …
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We examine the impact of household access to the internet on job finding rates in Germany during a period (2006 …-2009) in which internet access increased rapidly, and job-seekers increased their use of the internet as a search tool. During … this period, household access to the internet was almost completely dependent on connection to a particular technology (DSL …
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diagnosis more than doubles them. Internet ratings of repair shops are a good predictor of prices. However, the predictive …
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