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, despite the global nature of the marketplace, the location of the worker accounts for over a third of the variance in wages …. We also document that remote wages in local currency move almost one-for-one with the dollar exchange rate of the worker …'s country, and are highly sensitive to changes in the wages of foreign competitors. Finally, we provide a new measure on which …
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-commerce firm's fulfillment centers reduces traditional retail workers' income in geographically proximate counties by 2.4%. Wages …
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During the recovery from the Great Recession, inflation did not reach the central bank's 2 percent objective as quickly as many models had predicted. This coincided with increases in online shopping, which arguably made retail markets more contestable and damped retail inflation. This hypothesis...
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We analyze the relationship between unemployment and the supply of online labor for microtasking. Using detailed U.S. data from a large microtasking platform between 2011 and 2015, we study the participation and the number of hours supplied by workers in the U.S. We found that more individuals...
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