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The Impact of the Internet on Advertising Markets for News Media
Athey, Susan - 2013
In this paper, we explore the hypothesis that an important force behind the collapse in advertising revenue experienced … introduce a model of the market for advertising on news media outlets whereby news outlets are modeled as competing two … equilibrium outcomes in the advertising market. One consequence is that multi-homing on the part of advertisers is heterogeneous …
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Demand for Smokeless Tobacco : Role of Magazine Advertising
Dave, Dhaval M. - 2012
the national level, of the effects of magazine advertising on ST use. The focus on magazine advertising is significant …-specific advertising information over the sample period. This allows detailed and salient measures of advertising exposure at the … these tobacco products. Sub-analyses point to some differences in the advertising and tax response across segments of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460657
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Structural Increases in Skill Demand after the Great Recession
Blair, Peter Q. - 2020
In this paper we use detailed job vacancy data to estimate changes in skill demand in the years since the Great Recession. The share of job vacancies requiring a bachelor's degree increased by more than 60 percent between 2007 and 2019, with faster growth in professional occupations and...
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Putting Tasks to the Test : Human Capital, Job Tasks and Wages
Autor, David H. - 2009
Employing original, representative survey data, we document that cognitive, interpersonal and physical job task demands can be measured with high validity using standard interview techniques. Job tasks vary substantially within and between occupations, are significantly related to workers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463534
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Are Franchises Bad Employers?
Cappelli, Peter - 2007
Franchise jobs are often described as representing the epitome of the "low road" approach to managing employees: high turnover, little training, deskilled jobs, and little employee involvement, practices often seen as unsophisticated. Research on franchise operations suggests, however, that the...
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The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change : An Empirical Exploration
Autor, David H. - 2001
We apply an understanding of what computers do -- the execution of procedural or rules-based logic -- to study how computer technology alters job skill demands. We contend that computer capital (1) substitutes for a limited and well-defined set of human activities, those involving routine...
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Skill Requirements across Firms and Labor Markets : Evidence from Job Postings for Professionals
Deming, David - 2017
We study variation in skill demands for professionals across firms and labor markets. We categorize a wide range of keywords found in job ads into ten general skills. There is substantial variation in these skill requirements, even within narrowly defined occupations. Focusing particularly on...
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The Requirements of Jobs : Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey
Gittleman, Maury - 2016
The Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS) is a new survey at the Bureau of Labor Statistics which collects data on the educational, cognitive, and physical requirements of jobs, as well as the environmental conditions in which the work is performed. Using pre-production data, we provide...
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Accounting for Changes in Between-Group Inequality
Burstein, Ariel - 2015
We perform a quantitative analysis of observed changes in U.S. between-group inequality between 1984 and 2003. We use an assignment framework with many labor groups, equipment types, and occupations in which changes in inequality are caused by changes in workforce composition, occupation demand,...
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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Akerman, Anders - 2015
Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data to answer these questions. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points, and...
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