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Do they find you on Facebook? : Facebook profile picture and hiring chances
Baert, Stijn - 2015
We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in Belgium. The only characteristic in which these...
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Civility and trust in social media
Antoci, Angelo; Bonelli, Laura; Paglieri, Fabio; … - 2018
Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and political participation. This view has been recently challenged by the rising phenomenon of online incivility, which has made the environment of social networking sites hostile...
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Daily use of social media is associated with more body dissatisfaction of teenage girls in a large cross-cultural survey
Napp, Clotilde; Breda, Thomas - 2022
Most teenagers spend several hours per day on social media. We provide a large-scale investigation of the relationship between social media daily usage and body dissatisfaction among a sample of more than 50,000 15 y.o. students. This relation is positive and large for girls - higher use of...
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The behavioral, economic, and political impact of the internet and social media : empirical challenges and approaches
Sabatini, Fabio - 2023
This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods adopted to identify these impacts. We describe two main...
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A year of pandemic: levels, changes and validity of well-being data from Twitter : evidence from ten countries
Sarracino, Francesco; Greyling, Talita; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, South Africa, and Spain. Our measure of well-being is the Gross …
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Social media and the broadening of social movements : evidence from Black Lives Matter
Casanueva Artís, Annalí; Avetian, Vladimir; … - 2022
How do modern social movements broaden their base? Prompted by the viral video footage of George Floyd's murder, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement gained unprecedented scope in the spring of 2020. In this paper, we show that pandemic exposure (COVID-19 related deaths) significantly increased...
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Scarring effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Italian labour market
Fiaschi, Davide; Tealdi, Cristina - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic raised the share of inactive individuals in 2020 in Italy, mostly at the expense of permanent and … severely the ones living in large households in the North and Center of Italy. These findings find a rationale both in the …
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Did COVID-19 affect the division of labor within the household? : evidence from two waves of the pandemic in Italy
Del Boca, Daniela; Oggero, Noemi; Profeta, Paola; … - 2021
during the pandemic on the traditional division of household labor in Italy using survey data from interviews with a …
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R&D plans, expectations, and uncertainty: evidence from the COVID-19 shock in Italy
Brancati, Emanuele - 2021
This paper takes advantage of the COVID-19 outbreak to explore the determinants of firms' R&D choices around an exogenous shock. We make use of unique panel data on 7,800 Italian companies between January 2020 - right before the pandemic - and March of the same year - amid lockdown policies. We...
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Young people between education and the labour market during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
Fiaschi, Davide; Tealdi, Cristina - 2021
-to-work transition (STWT). The aim is to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy on the careers of individuals aged 15-34. We … significantly longer STWT duration compared to other EU countries, particularly for females and residents in the South of Italy. In … rigorous estimation and analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on the carriers of young individuals in Italy, which has not yet …
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