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Conducting Interactive Experiments Online
Arechar, Antonio - 2017
Online labor markets provide new opportunities for behavioral research, but conducting economic experiments online raises important methodological challenges. This particularly holds for interactive designs. In this paper, we provide a methodological discussion of the similarities and...
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Does the Internet Increase the Job Finding Rate? Evidence from a Period of Internet Expansion
Denzer, Manuel - 2018
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...
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Workers in the Crowd : The Labour Market Impact of the Online Platform Economy
Cantarella, Michele - 2019
In this paper, we compare wages and labor market conditions of individuals engaged in online platform work and in traditional occupations by exploiting individual-level survey data on crowdworkers belonging to the largest micro-task marketplaces, focusing on evidence from the United States and...
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Working Conditions on Digital Labour Platforms : Evidence from a Leading Labour Supply Economy
Aleksynska, Mariya - 2019
Online labour platforms matching labour supply and demand are profoundly modifying the world of work. Businesses use … them to outsource tasks to a world-wide pool of workers; while workers can access work opportunities transcending national … workers of Ukraine, which in 2013-2017 occupied the first place in Europe, and the fourth place in the world in terms of the …
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Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet
Jolivet, Grégory - 2014
We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price dispersion among adverts for the same product. We also show...
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Hybrid (Solo)Self-Employment and Upskilling : Is Online Platform Work a Path Towards Entrepreneurship?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Ranieri, Antonio - 2022
The increasing use of online labour platforms as intermediaries for finding work - known as crowdwork or gig work - is a new form of 'hybrid' (solo)self-employment that hinges on the borders of dependent and self-employment. In this study we use a novel international dataset of online platform...
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Effects of E-Commerce on Local Labor Markets
Bauer, Anahid; Fernández Guerrico, Sofía - 2023
This paper studies the effect of e-commerce on local labor markets. We exploit cross-market variation in e-commerce price advantage stemming from the enactment of the Amazon Tax-state-level legislation that mandates state sales taxes collection to out-of-state online retailers. Introducing...
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Effects of an Online Self-Assessment Tool on Teachers' Digital Competencies
Abbiati, Giovanni; Azzolini, Davide; Balanskat, Anja; … - 2023
We evaluate the effects of an online self-assessment tool on teachers' competencies and beliefs about ICT in education. The causal impact of the tool is evaluated through a randomized encouragement design, involving 7,391 lower secondary teachers across 11 European countries. Short-run impact...
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A Cautionary Note on Using Industry Affiliation to Predict Income
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2012
Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular industry affiliation as an instrument for income....
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Forward Guidance and Household Expectations
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
We compare the causal effects of forward guidance communication about future interest rates on households' expectations of inflation, mortgage rates, and unemployment to the effects of communication about future inflation in a randomized controlled trial using more than 25,000 U.S. individuals...
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