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ICT Adoption in Micro and Small Firms : Can Internet Access Improve Labor Productivity?
Viollaz, Mariana - 2018
This paper analyzes the impact of internet adoption on labor productivity in Peruvian micro and small manufacturing … productivity; (ii) reallocates employment away from temporary administrative workers and non-remunerated workers and expands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926543
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Sources of the German Productivity Demise - Tracing the Effects of Industry-Level ICT Investment
Eicher, Theo S. - 2007
While the US experienced two successive labor productivity surges in 1995 and 2000, Germany's productivity declined … dramatically during the same period. We examine the sources of Germany's productivity demise using the ifo industry growth … deeply lacking in the mid 1990's as compared to the US. The transition to the new economy mitigated the German productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777731
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Technology and Education : Computers, Software, and the Internet
Bulman, George - 2015
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011649
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Communications Technology and Terrorism
Mahmood, Rafat - 2020
By facilitating the flow of information in society, communications technology (CT; e.g., newspapers, radio, television, the internet) can help terrorists to (i) spread their message, (ii) recruit followers, and (iii) coordinate among group members. However, CT also facilitates monitoring and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852045
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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014
Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047318
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The Impact of Digital Technologies on Worker Tasks : Do Labor Policies Matter?
Almeida, Rita - 2018
Between 1999 and 2006, Brazilian cities experienced strong growth in the provision of internet services, driven in part by the privatization of the telecommunications industry. A main concern of policymakers is that digital technology replaces routine, manual tasks, displacing lower-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927576
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Adoption and Diffusion of Health Information Technology - The Case of Primary Care Clinics
Callaway, Brantly; Ghosal, Vivek - 2021
We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a large sample of physician clinics from several States in the U.S. Ours is one of the first studies to intensively investigate primary care clinics. These clinics are important as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315864
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Returns to ICT Skills
Falck, Oliver - 2016
How important is mastering information and communication technology (ICT) in modern labor markets? We answer this question with unique data on ICT skills tested in 19 countries. Our two instrumental-variable models exploit technologically induced variation in broadband Internet availability that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997356
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Experience, Innovation and Productivity - Empirical Evidence from Italy's Slowdown
Daveri, Francesco - 2010
We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141023
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Economic Integration and the Optimal Corporate Tax Structure with Heterogeneous Firms
Bauer, Christian - 2011
drives low-productivity firms from the small country's home market, replacing them with high-productivity exporters from … abroad. This endogenous policy response creates a selection effect that increases the average productivity of home firms when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120658