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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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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 boundaries. Increasingly, workers are located in...
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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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Downloading Wisdom from Online Crowds
Saiz, Albert; Simonsohn, Uri - 2021
The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number of documents written about different topics? We propose, based on the premise that the occurrence of a phenomenon increases the likelihood that people write about it, that the...
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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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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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Job Satisfaction and the Labor Market Institutions in Urban China
Heywood, John S. - 2014
The determinants of worker job satisfaction are estimated using a representative survey of three major cities in China …
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Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China : 1982-2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2014
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...
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Minimum Wages and Employment in China
Fang, Tony - 2013
Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum … changes in China over the period of 2004 to 2009. In contrast to the mixed results of previous studies using provincial … Central regions of China, and result in disemployment for females, young adults, and low-skilled workers …
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