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Digitalization and the future of work : macroeconomic consequences
Arntz, Melanie - 2019
Computing power continues to grow at an enormous rate. Simultaneously, more and better data is increasingly available and Machine Learning methods have seen significant breakthroughs in the recent past. All this pushes further the boundary of what machines can do. Nowadays increasingly complex...
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Digitalization and the future of work : macroeconomic consequences
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2019
Computing power continues to grow at an enormous rate. Simultaneously, more and better data is increasingly available and Machine Learning methods have seen significant breakthroughs in the recent past. All this pushes further the boundary of what machines can do. Nowadays increasingly complex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022792
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When face masks signal social identity: explaining the deep face-mask divide during the COVID-19 pandemic
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Riyanto, Yohanes Eko; Wong, … - 2021
With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging and the vaccination program still rolling out, there continues to be an immediate need for public health officials to better understand the mechanisms behind the deep and perpetual divide over face masks in America. Using a random sample of Americans...
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When do ordinal ability rank effects emerge? : evidence from the timing of school closures
Bertoni, Marco; Parkam, Saeideh - 2024
We leverage the timing of pandemic-induced school closures to learn about the emergence of ordinal rank effects in education. Using administrative data from Italian middle schools for four cohorts of students, our study reveals that disrupting peer interactions during the first year of middle...
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The big shift in working arrangements : eight ways unusual
Davis, Steven J. - 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic instigated a big shift in working arrangements. I first describe the scale of this shift in the United States, drawing on the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes and other sources. I then review differences, circa 2023, in work-from-home rates across industries,...
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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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Welfare states, labor markets, social investment and the digital transformation
Eichhorst, Werner; Hemerijck, Anton; Scalise, Gemma - 2020
states are confronted with the even more disruptive coronavirus pandemic as probably, threatening the life of the more … digitization and artificial intelligence, may still be overblown, intrusive change in the nature of work and employment relations … aftermath of Coronavirus pandemic that is likely to turn into the worst recession since the second world war? Empirically, this …
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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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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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Creative disruption : technology innovation, labour demand and the pandemic
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...
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