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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 estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the largest economy and mobile broadband market in Africa. The analysis exploits a unique dataset that integrates three waves of a nationally representative longitudinal household...
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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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. 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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taxes would have had on broadband Internet access at an early stage of its diffusion around the country, combining data on …
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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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Recording industry revenue has fallen sharply in the last three years, and some -- but not all -- observers attribute this to file sharing. We collect new data on albums obtained via purchase and downloading, as well as the consumers' valuations of these albums, among a sample of US college...
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Much debate exists around the impact that illegal file sharing may have on the creative industries. Similarly, opinions differ regarding whether the producers of artistic works should be forced to accept any weakening of intellectual property rights resulting from illegal file sharing, or if...
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