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The impact of digital technologies on worker tasks : do labor policies matter?
Almeida, Rita; Corseuil, Carlos H. L.; Poole, Jennifer P. - 2017
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...
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The dynamics of automation adoption : firm-level heterogeneity and aggregate employment effects
Bisio, Laura; Cuzzola, Angelo; Grazzi, Marco; … - 2023
We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian economy during 2011-2019. We integrate datasets on trade activities, firms', and workers' characteristics for the population of Italian importing firms and estimate the effects...
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Container trade and the U.S. recovery
Kilian, Lutz; Nomikos, Nikos K.; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2021
detrended data for personal consumption expenditures and manufacturing output suggest that the U.S. economy has recovered to … near 90% of pre-pandemic levels as of March 2021, our structural VAR model shows that the component of manufacturing output …
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Urban-Biased Structural Change
Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis; Perroni, Carlo; Wong, … - 2023
Using firm-level data from France, we document that the shift of economic activity from manufacturing to services over … manufacturing firms that increasingly locate in suburban and rural areas. Motivated by these findings, we estimate a structural … strengthened for services but weakened for manufacturing. This divergence is a key driver of the urban bias but it dampens …
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British stock market, BREXIT and media sentiments - a big data analysis
Basak, Gopal Krishna; Pranab Kumar Das; Marjit, Sugata; … - 2019
In this paper we show, using a Machine Learning Framework and utilising a substantial corpus of media articles on Brexit, confirmed evidence of co-integration and causality between the ensuing media sentiments and British currency. The novel contribution of this paper is that along with...
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Honesty in the digital age
Cohn, Alain; Gesche, Tobias; Maréchal, Michel André - 2018
Modern communication technologies enable efficient exchange of information, but often sacrifice direct human interaction inherent in more traditional forms of communication. This raises the question of whether the lack of personal interaction induces individuals to exploit informational...
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Buyer Uncertainty about Seller Capacity: Causes, Consequences, and a Partial Solution
Horton, John J. - 2018
Employers in an online labor market often pursue workers with little capacity to take on more work. The pursuit of low-capacity workers is consequential, as these workers are more likely to reject employer inquires, causing a reduction in the probability a job opening is ultimately filled. In an...
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The economics of copyright in the digital age
Peukert, Christian; Windisch, Margaritha - 2023
legal foundations of the copyright system and developments of length and scope throughout the era of digitization. Second …
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Honesty in virtual communication
Nieken, Petra; Walther, Sven - 2024
Remote work arrangements and increased virtual communication are commonplace. Particularly in organizations, virtual communication has become an essential tool for collaboration and exchanging information. Virtual communication channels, such as text or video messages, provide different levels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528213
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Digital tools and the derailment of Iceland's new constitution
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Meuwese, Anne - 2016
This paper maps the use of digital tools in the Icelandic constitutional revision process of 2011 and discusses its aftermath in subsequent years. Although causal links between the digital elements of the process and the content and fate of the constitutional bill are impossible to establish, an...
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