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Welfare states, labor markets, social investment and the digital transformation

Eichhorst, Werner; Hemerijck, Anton; Scalise, Gemma - 2020

digitization and artificial intelligence, may still be overblown, intrusive change in the nature of work and employment relations … chapter explores how Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, in terms of the strengths and vulnerabilities of their labour market … to digitization, together with their respective social investment aptitude, are currently preparing their welfare states …

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Do German works councils counter or foster the implementation of digital technologies?

Genz, Sabrina; Bellmann, Lutz; Matthes, Britta - 2018

highlights the importance of establishment-level workforce representation for the digital adoption process within Germany. …

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German financial state aid during COVID-19 pandemic : higher impact among digitalized self-employed

Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022

In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...

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Differences in quality of life estimates using rents and home values

Winters, John V. - 2012

Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in "real wages" where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues, including how housing prices should be measured....

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Advanced digital technologies and investment in employee training : complements or substitutes?

Brunello, Giorgio; Rückert, Désirée; Weiss, Christoph; … - 2023

Using firm-level data covering the 27 EU countries, the UK and the US, we show that employers tend to reduce investment in training per employee after adopting advanced digital technologies (ADT). We estimate with a control function approach firm-level production functions augmented with two...

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The effects of shared school technology access on students digital skills in Peru

Bet, German; Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2014

This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...

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Digitalization and the future of work : macroeconomic consequences

Arntz, Melanie - 2019

to shape the future of work. Germany is an interesting case to study, as it is a developed country at the technological …

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Digging into the digital divide: workers' exposure to digitalization and its consequences for individual employment

Genz, Sabrina; Schnabel, Claus - 2021

set for Germany and a direct measure of the first-time introduction of cutting-edge digitalization technologies in …

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Digital divide or digital provide? : technology, time use and learning loss during COVID-19

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Bhattacharjee, Anindita - 2022

COVID-19 school closure has caused a worldwide shift towards technology-aided home schooling. Given widespread poverty in developing countries, this has raised concerns over new forms of learning inequalities. Using nationwide data on primary and secondary school children in slum and rural...

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Labour market effects of digital matching platforms : experimental evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Jones, Sam; Sen, Kunal - 2022

Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...

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