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Session
Track T3-2: Data, AI, and Digital Governance: Markets and Policy
Time:
Tuesday, 20/May/2025:
9:30am - 10:15am

Session Chair: Tania Babina, University of Maryland
Discussant: Anastassia Fedyk, UC Berkeley
Location: Babbio Center 203


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Big Data and Bigger Firms: A Labor Market Channel

Abhinav Gupta1, Naman Nishesh2, Elena Simintzi3

1University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; 2University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; 3University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

This paper studies the impact of employee output information disclosure through GitHub on labor reallocation towards large firms. GitHub, which is the world’s largest software management platform, tracks and publicly displays real-time individual contributions. In 2016, a policy change enabled GitHub users to display their contributions more accurately on their profiles. Following this update, employees with 1 standard deviation higher GitHub contributions witnessed a 5.7% increase in job transitions to large firms, predominantly at the expense of smaller companies. While productive individuals left small firms for senior roles in larger companies, the latter retained them through internal promotions. The departure of productive workers led to an overall reduction in employment growth and productivity for small firms with more productive employees prior to the shock. Our findings highlight the role of labor-related big data in amplifying the dominance of large firms in recent years.

Gupta-Big Data and Bigger Firms-147.pdf


 
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