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Returns to ICT skills
Oliver, Falck; Heimisch, Alexandra; Wiederhold, Simon - 2016
How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...
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Does state aid for broadband deployment in rural areas close the digital and economic divide?
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Falck, Oliver; … - 2018
We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the … that aided municipalities have - depending on broadband quality - between 18.4 and 25.4 percentage points higher broadband … coverage than non-aided municipalities. This increase in broadband coverage, closing the digital divide, results in an average …
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A retrospective study of state aid control in the German broadband market
Duso, Tomaso; Nardotto, Mattia; Seldeslachts, Jo - 2021
broadband infrastructure in rural areas of Germany. Such subsidies are subject to state aid control by the European Commission …. In this study, we do not only analyse whether the aid was effective in solving a market failure – low broadband coverage … aid significantly increased broadband coverage. More importantly, we find that the number of internet providers has …
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Home broadband and human capital formation
Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021
find that increasing broadband speed by 1 Mbit/s increases test scores by 1.37 percentile ranks in the years 2005 …
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The efficiency of state aid for the deployment of high-speed broadband : evidence from the French market
Bourreau, Marc; Grzybowski, Lukasz; Muñoz-Acevedo, Ángela - 2023
In this paper, we evaluate the efficiency of the French State aid plan for broadband deployment, the Plan France Très …
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Technology adoption in education : usage, spillovers and student achievement
Bergman, Peter - 2016
Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted by their end users and are effective in practice. This paper studies the adoption, diffusion, and effects of one type of technology that is increasingly ubiquitous:...
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The march of the techies : technology, trade, and job polarization in France, 1994-2007
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2016
Using administrative employee-firm-level data on the entire private sector from 1994 to 2007, we show that the labor market in France has polarized: employment shares of high and low wage occupations have grown, while middle wage occupations have shrunk. During the same period, the share of...
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The impact of defaults on technology adoption, and its underappreciation by policymakers
Bergman, Peter; Rogers, Todd - 2017
We conduct an experiment to understand how enrollment defaults affect the take up and impact of an education technology. We show that a standard and simplified opt-in process induce low take up. Automatically enrolling parents increases adoption significantly and improves student achievement....
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Do pilot and demonstration projects work?
Blackburn, Christopher J.; Flowers, Mallory E.; … - 2018
Pilot and demonstration (P&D) projects are commonly deployed to catalyze early adoption of technology, but are poorly understood in terms of mechanism and impact. We conceptually distinguish unique functions of pilots and demonstrations, then examine whether they accelerate green building...
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Two-sided platforms and biases in technology adoption
Choi, Jay Pil; Jeon, Doh-Shin - 2020
We investigate the relationship between market structure and platforms' incentives to adopt technological innovations in two-sided markets, where platforms may find it optimal to charge zero price on the consumer side and to extract surplus on the advertising side. We consider innovations that...
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