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diffusion of internet access in the late 1990?s. Which types of persons incorporated the internet into their job search strategy … internet job search derived from the December 1998 and August 2000 CPS Computer and Internet Supplements, matched with job … search outcomes from subsequent CPS files. We find that internet searchers are positively selected on observables, but …
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We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret …
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Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this … exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables and fixed effect estimates show that internet use is associated … highlights three mechanisms for how internet use may affect reported sex crime, namely a reporting effect, a matching effect on …
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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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This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity … in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony … network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find small negative …
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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 the impact on TFP of North-South trade-related technology diffusion in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). North-South R&D flows are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The main...
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Based on static analysis, a number of studies argue that forming a RTA is more likely to raise welfare if member countries are ?natural trading partners,? while other studies claim the opposite. This paper considers the argument from a dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with...
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Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of spillover benefits to augment the primary benefits of a boost to national income from new investment. This paper begins by reviewing possible sources of FDI induced spillovers....
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Standard neo-classical trade theory predicts that trade liberalisation should cause a fall in wage inequality in developing countries through a decrease in the relative demand for skilled labour. Recent studies of a number of developing countries, however, find evidence to the contrary. Using a...
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