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Piecework and Job Search in the Platform Economy

Cantarella, Michele; Strozzi, Chiara - 2022

The massive growth of jobs in the platform economy has reignited a long-standing debate on the wage elasticity of labour supply for the self-employed. Overwhelming empirical evidence seems to suggest that workers in the platform economy will work more hours than they wish to, for a lower wage,...

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Network Effects on Labor Contracts of Internal Migrants in China : A Spatial Autoregressive Model

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2017

This paper studies the fact that 37 percent of the internal migrants in China do not sign a labor contract with their employers, as revealed in a nationwide survey. These contract-free jobs pay lower hourly wages, require longer weekly work hours, and provide less insurance or on-the-job...

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Evolution and the Growth Process : Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Galor, Oded - 2012

This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human...

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How Darwinian Should an Economy Be?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2014

This paper studies aggregate dynamics in a cobweb model where learning takes place through a selection mechanism, by which more successful firms are replicated at a higher rate. The structure of the model allows to characterize analytically the aggregate dynamics, and to compute the effect on...

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Telecommunications Dynamics, Output and Employment

Jungmittag, Andre - 2014

In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital … services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic … production function is the analytical starting point for our interdependent analysis of output, use of telecommunications and …

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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion : Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2012

This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...

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Does the Growth Process Discriminate Against Older Workers?

Langot, François; Moreno-Galbis, Eva - 2021

This paper seeks to gain insights on the relationship between growth and unemployment, when considering heterogeneous agents in terms of age. We introduce life cycle features in the endogenous job destruction framework à la Mortensen and Pissarides (1998). We show that, under the assumption of...

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Sooner Rather than Later : Social Networks and Technology Adoption

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Satish, Varun; Sulaiman, Munshi; … - 2021

Using data from a randomised experiment in Kenya, we estimate the causal effect of social networks on technology adoption. In this experiment, farmers were invited to information sessions about the use of Tissue Culture Banana (TCB), an in vitro banana cultivation technology. We find that an...

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Migration, Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations

Bahar, Dany - 2016

Do migrants shape the dynamic comparative advantage of their sending and receiving countries? To answer this question we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion...

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Trade Liberalization, Democratization and Technology Adoption

Cervellati, Matteo - 2013

equilibrium theory with heterogeneous skills predicts a complementarity between trade and political regimes. Openness should …

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