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Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement
Pfann, Gerard A.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2001
We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an … American workers). The type of data that we use also generates information on the value of learning and on whether and how the … the increases in the firm?s value from learning about its workers? behavior and to infer the extent of biases in estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274098
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New Digital Technologies and Heterogeneous Employment and Wage Dynamics in the United States: Evidence from Individual-Level Data
Fossen, Frank M.; Sorgner, Alina - 2019
artificial intelligence (AI), and the third measure assesses the suitability of occupations for machine learning (Brynjolfsson et …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005943
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor Markets in Developing Countries: A New Method with an Illustration for Lao PDR and Viet Nam
Carbonero, Francesco; Davies, Jeremy; Ernst, Ekkehard; … - 2021
suitability of work activities for machine learning provided by Brynjolfsson et al. (2018) for the US and the World Bank's STEP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882520
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AI, Skill, and Productivity: The Case of Taxi Drivers
Kanazawa, Kyogo; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Shigeoka, Hitoshi; … - 2022
We examine the impact of Articial Intelligence (AI) on productivity in the context of taxi drivers. The AI we study assists drivers with finding customers by suggesting routes along which the demand is predicted to be high. We find that AI improves drivers' productivity by shortening the...
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Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship
Fossen, Frank M.; McLemore, Trevor; Sorgner, Alina - 2024
This survey reviews emerging but fast-growing literature on impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on entrepreneurship, providing a resource for researchers in entrepreneurship and neighboring disciplines. We begin with a review of definitions of AI and show that ambiguity and broadness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015045448
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The cost impact of spam filters: measuring the effect of information system technologies in organizations
Caliendo, Marco; Clement, Michel; Papies, Dominik; … - 2008
More than 70% of global e-mail traffic consists of unsolicited and commercial direct marketing, also known as spam. Dealing with spam incurs high costs for organizations, prompting efforts to try to reduce spam-related costs by installing spam filters. Using modern econometric methods to reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269043
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Wage Dynamics and Unobserved Heterogeneity : Time Preference or Learning Ability?
Munasinghe, Lalith; Sicherman, Nachum - 2004
inherently unobservable sources of heterogeneity – learning ability and workers? inter-temporal preferences (discounting) – both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262170
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Close neighbours matter: neighbourhood effects on early performance at school
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric - 2006
Children's outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar characteristics are observed to live in close proximity. Another major difficulty...
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Should you compete or cooperate with your schoolmates?
Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2008
between schoolmates, which in turn decreases the overall achievement. A cooperative learning approach may instead emerge when … International Student Assessment (PISA) survey on students' literacy levels. A competitive learning approach has a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268541
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Learning unethical practices from a co-worker: the peer effect of Jose Canseco
Gould, Eric D.; Kaplan, Todd R. - 2008
This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in the last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268645