state surveillance on social capital and economic performance. Using county-level variation in the spy density in the 1980s …, we exploit discontinuities at state borders to show that higher levels of Stasi surveillance led to lower levels of … losses throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Overall, our results suggest that the social and economic costs of state surveillance …

process and capital devoted to monitoring workers. Surveillance capital intensifies workers' job strain, while wage …

Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the … incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported …

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 …

diagnosis more than doubles them. Internet ratings of repair shops are a good predictor of prices. However, the predictive …

With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper …

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 …

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 …

Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods … limitations. The first approach involves searching for exogenous sources of variation in the access to fast Internet or specific … natural or quasi-experiments for identifying the causal impact of high-speed Internet or specific social media. This …

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 …