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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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ICT Adoption and Productivity in Developing Countries: New Firm Level Evidence from Brazil and India
Basant, Rakesh; Commander, Simon; Harrison, Rupert; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the determinants of ICT adoption and its impact on performance in both countries. The descriptive evidence shows that Brazilian firms on average use ICT more intensively than their...
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Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?
Zoghi, Cindy; Levenson, Alec; Gibbs, Michael - 2005
In this paper we study job design. Will an organization plan precisely how the job is to be done ex ante, or ask workers to determine the process as they go? We first model this decision and predict complementarity between these job attributes: multitasking, discretion, skills, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262638
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Using Internet Data to Analyse the Labour Market: A Methodological Enquiry
Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Beblavy, Miroslav; Thum, … - 2014
With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper focuses on methodological issues arising from the usage of online job vacancy data and voluntary web-based surveys to analyse the labour market. In addition to providing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435233
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Using Internet Data to Analyse the Labour Market: A Methodological Enquiry
Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Beblavy, Miroslav; Thum, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper focuses on methodological issues arising from the usage of online job vacancy data and voluntary web-based surveys to analyse the labour market. In addition to providing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959663
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Job Tenure in Britain : Employee Characteristics Versus Workplace Effects
Mumford, Karen; Smith, Peter N. - 2004
We consider differences in current job tenure of individuals using linked employee and workplace data. This enables us … workplace in which they work. The various individual characteristics are, as a group, found to be essentially uncorrelated with … the workplace effect, however, this is not true for women and non-white employees. We find that the lower tenure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261845
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Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2002
This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262680
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Local social capital and geographical mobility: a theory
David, Quentin; Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2008
In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of local social capital. Investing in local ties is rational when workers anticipate that they will not move to another region. Reciprocally, once local social capital is accumulated, incentives to...
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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe
Heckman, James Joseph; Jacobs, Bas - 2009
Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274258
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The role of education in technology use and adoption: Evidence from the Canadian workplace and employee survey
Riddell, W. Craig; Song, Xueda - 2012
causal effect of education on technology adoption. Relying on data from the Workplace and Employee Survey, this study … workplace tasks. …
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