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traditional occupations by exploiting individual-level survey data on crowdworkers belonging to the largest micro …
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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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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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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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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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. Supervisor ratings are subjective and data containing supervisor ratings typically stem from individual firm level data sets. For … both these reasons, doubts persist on how useful such data are for evaluating theories in personnel economics and whether … findings from such data generalize to the labor force at large. In this paper, we examine personnel data from six large …
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Using rich administrative tax data, we explore the effects of the introduction of online ridesharing platforms on entry …
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So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using …'s research potential is illustrated using data from the first panel wave conducted in the year 2008. Data access for external … researchers and data protection issues of the confidential micro data are discussed. -- Firm foundation ; micro data ; firm data …
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Economic theory suggests that monopoly prices hurt consumers but benefit shareholders. But in a world where individuals … distribution for the United States, using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances and the Consumer Expenditure Survey, spanning …
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the covariates are observed in two different datasets that cannot be linked. This type of data combination problem arises …
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