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Does ICT investment spur or hamper offshoring? : empirical evidence from microdata

Benfratello, Luigi; Razzolini, Tiziano; Sembenelli, … - 2015

We provide evidence on the effect of ICT investment on the propensity to offshore for a sample of Italian manufacturing … firms. To deal with the endogeneity of ICT investment we adopt an innovative identification strategy based on the …

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How ICT investment and energy use influence the productivity of Korean industries

Khayyat, Nabaz T.; Lee, Jongsu; Heshmati, Almas - 2014

investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor … the allocation of public investment and support is limited. The results presented herein show that ICT/non-ICT capital … investment are substitutes for labor and energy use. We also find a high output growth rate in the sampled sectors, and …

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The pandemic push : digital technologies and workforce adjustments

Gathmann, Christina; Kagerl, Christian; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2023

Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. About two in three firms invested in digital technologies, in particular in hardware and software to enable...

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Information technology and the knowledge elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...

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Working from home and commuting : heterogeneity over time, space, and occupations

Vos, Duco de; Ham, Maarten van; Meijers, Evert J. - 2019

Teleworking may increase the willingness to accept a longer commute. This paper presents new evidence of the effect of teleworking on the length of commutes. We use novel panel data from the Netherlands, for the years 2008-2018, and find stronger effects compared to studies that use older data....

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The electric telegraph, news coverage and political participation

Wang, Tianyi - 2023

Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...

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The influence of value-chain governance on innovation performance: a study of Italian suppliers

Brancati, Emanuele; Pietrobelli, Carlo; Mazzi, Caio Torres - 2021

This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products. We take advantage of a unique dataset of Italian firms to identify governance regimes along suppliers’ technological capabilities and the level of explicit coordination in...

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Wage differences according to workers' origin: the role of working more upstream in GVCs

Fays, Valentine; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François - 2021

This paper is the first to investigate the role of firm-level upstreamness (i.e. the number of steps before the production of a firm meets final demand) in explaining wage differences according to workers' origin. Using unique linked employer-employee data relative to the Belgian manufacturing...

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The impact of increased cost-sharing on utilization of low value services : evidence from the state of Oregon

Gruber, Jonathan; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Wright, Bill - 2017

In this study we examine the impact of a value-based insurance design (V-BID) program implemented between 2010 and 2013 at a large public employer in the state of Oregon. The program substantially increased cost-sharing, specifically copayments and coinsurance, for several healthcare services...

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Upstreamness, wages and gender : equal benefits for all?

Gagliardi, Nicola; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François - 2019

This paper provides first evidence on the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness (i.e. the steps before the production of a firm meets final demand) on workers' wages. It also investigates whether results vary along the earnings distribution and by gender. Findings, based on...

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