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This paper analyzes the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (information technology) goods across a wide range of countries. We find, using two separate methodologies and datasets, that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling...
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This report provides a synthesis of theoretical and empirical work in the sciences and social sciences that indicates the drivers, opportunities, threats, and barriers to the future evolution of cyberspace and the feasibility of crime prevention measures. It is based on 10 state-of-the-art...
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of the older media and signs of a greater receptivity to such an approach in some studies of Internet developments and …
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, and what the implications of those differences are for the Internet. Drawing on mass media, advocacy, and regulatory … for the Internet to continue to thrive as a global medium. …
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) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings … suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills and, hence …, might not be able to make best use of important opportunities the Internet has to offer. Children employed very ineffective …
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Recent anxieties over the digital divide have centered on the observation that uptake of the Internet is shaped by a … number of identifiable, place-based factors. Yet is the Internet any more a product of material geography than previous …
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people encounter by analyzing data from a random stratified sample of approximately 1000 internet-using children aged 9 … users with more digital competence in using the internet will experience less harm associated with online risk. The data did … been bothered or upset by something on the internet. Finally, the study found that, although this had not been predicted …
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European self-regulation to ensure children's safety on social networking sites requires that providers ensure children are old enough to use the sites, aware of safety messages, empowered by privacy settings, discouraged from disclosing personal information, and supported by easy to use...
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We revisit Western Europe’s record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both higher rates of physical capital accumulation and...
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The prediction approach proposed by Dearden, Machin and Reed (DMR) consists in (1) regressing the observed incomes of the child and parent families on separate sets of predetermined variables, and (2) regressing the child’s predicted income on that of the parents. Conceptually, this estimator...
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