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What drives the relationship between digitalization and industrial energy demand? : exploring firm-level heterogeneity

Axenbeck, Janna; Berner, Anne; Kneib, Thomas - 2022

The ongoing digital transformation has raised hopes for ICT-based climate protection within manufacturing industries, such as dematerialized products and energy efficiency gains. However, ICT also consume energy as well as resources, and detrimental effects on the environment are increasingly...

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The impact of digital technologies on worker tasks : do labor policies matter?

Corseuil, Carlos H. L.; Poole, Jennifer P.; 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...

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Internal digitalization and tax-efficient decision making

Klein, Daniel; Ludwig, Christopher; Nicolay, Katharina - 2020

analyze if the benefits of digitalization expand beyond firms' core business functions. The novel use of a survey that … reactive to shocks in the income shifting incentive than non-digital firms. Our results suggest that internal digitalization … work, we are the first to document the association of digitalization and the performance of firms' support functions. …

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Adjustments of local labour markets to the COVID-19 crisis : the role of digitalisation and working-from-home

Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco; Brüll, Eduard - 2022

Employment responses to the COVID-19 crisis differed widely across German local labour markets at the beginning of the pandemic, with differences in short-time work rates of up to 20 percentage points. We show that digital capital, and to a lesser extent working-from-home, were essential for the...

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Are we yet sick of new technologies? : the unequal health effects of digitalization

Arntz, Melanie; Findeisen, Sebastian; Maurer, Stephan; … - 2024

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Are we yet sick of new technologies? : the unequal health effects of digitalization

Arntz, Melanie; Findeisen, Sebastian; Maurer, Stephan; … - 2024

This study quantifies the relationship between workplace digitalization, i.e., the increasing use of frontier … individual-level use of technologies between 2011 and 2019, we find that digitalization induces similar shifts into more complex …

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