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We examine the impact of Articial Intelligence (AI) on productivity in the context of taxi drivers. The AI we study assists drivers with finding customers by suggesting routes along which the demand is predicted to be high. We find that AI improves drivers' productivity by shortening the...
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In an era characterized by population aging and economic challenges in welfare states across the world, sustaining these welfare systems requires a large workforce. Many individuals outside the labor market aspire to work but encounter a labyrinth of obstacles. While Public Employment Services...
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While most empirical analysis of prediction markets treats prices of binary options as predictions of the probability … provide relevant analytic foundations, describing sufficient conditions under which prediction markets prices correspond with … mean beliefs. Beyond these specific sufficient conditions, we show that for a broad class of models prediction market …
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This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform out-of-sample forecasts using an adaption of the model of Hatton (1995) to time series cross-sectional data about post-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004...
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forecast errors; the training effect suggests that modest educational interventions can durably improve forecasting skills …. Forecast receipt increased demand for protective masks and increased the responsiveness of outdoor time to pollution. Forecast …
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mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of …
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AI is transforming labor markets around the world. Existing research has focused on advanced economies but has neglected developing economies. Different impacts of AI on labor markets in different countries arise not only from heterogeneous occupational structures, but also from the fact that...
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We investigate heterogeneous effects of new digital technologies on the individual-level employment- and wage dynamics in the U.S. labor market in the period from 2011-2018. We employ three measures that reflect different aspects of impacts of new digital technologies on occupations. The first...
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technologies affect entrepreneurial opportunities and decision-making under uncertainty, the adoption of AI technologies by …
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vulnerability. -- power market ; demand models ; demand response ; customer base-line ; forecast …
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