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While the Internet has been found to reduce trading frictions in a number of other markets, existing research has … found that Internet job search (IJS) was associated with longer unemployment durations in 1998/2000 – using comparable data … about 25 percent. This finding is robust to controls for workers' AFQT scores and detailed indicators of Internet access …
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Can having more education than a job requires reduce one's chances of being offered the job? We study this question in a sample of applications to jobs that are posted on an urban Chinese website. We find that being overqualified in this way does not reduce the success rates of...
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This paper examines how the Internet has impacted job search behavior. Examining those who use the Internet for job … has become more extensive. Furthermore, the Internet has led to reallocation of effort among various job search activities …
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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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Traffic jams are an important problem both on an individual and on a societal level and much research has been done on trying to explain their emergence. The mainstream approach to road traffic monitoring is based on crowdsourcing roaming GPS devices such as cars or cell phones. These systems...
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. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local level with individual register data on the …-out of high-speed internet. The results show that high-speed internet improves reemployment rates after the first months of …
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and to what extent the Internet will affect the location of economic activity. Even after the very substantial … making agglomeration more important. We argue that the Internet will produce more of the same forces for deagglomeration, but …. This is not likely to be affected by the Internet, which allows long distance 'conversations' but not 'handshakes.' …
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. The Internet promises to open new channels for worker-firm communications. What are the consequences of this opening? I …
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aggregate moments from a panel of Internet users. We evaluate the fit of the model to key features of the data and use it to … compute the predictions of the supply model. We discuss how such a model can inform debates about the effects of the Internet …
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Mediating transactions through the Internet removes important cues that salespeople can use to assess a consumer …'s willingness to pay. We analyze whether dealers' difficulty in identifying consumer characteristics on the Internet and consumers … discrimination. The second part of the paper turns to the role of the Internet. Online minority buyers who use the Internet Referral …
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