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Employment protection, technology choice, and worker allocation

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Gautier, Pieter; Wind, Joris de - 2010

Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk …

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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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Parental separation and the formation of economic preferences

Dahmann, Sarah Christina; Kettlewell, Nathan; Lam, Jack - 2022

We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large … adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have the same risk tolerance as adolescents from non-separated families …. Moreover, for both trust and risk, we find that separation attenuates the transmission of preferences from father to child …

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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2007

This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...

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The "dynamic" of job competition during the ICT revolution

Chéron, Arnaud (contributor); Langot, François (contributor) - 2007

"Our paper seeks to gain insights on the effect of labor market institutions on the evolution of overeducation (job competition), unemployment inequalities and job instability during the polarization process of the labor market fostered by the diffusion of novel technologies. Based on micro...

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ICT use in the developing world : an analysis of differences in computer and internet penetration

Chinn, Menzie David (contributor); … - 2006

Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries and across developing countries. To identify the...

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ICT adoption and productivity in developing countries : new firm level evidence from Brazil and India

Basant, Rakesh; Commander, Simon; Harrison, Rupert; … - 2006

This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the determinants of ICT adoption and its impact on performance in both countries. The descriptive evidence shows that Brazilian firms on average use ICT more intensively than their...

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Innovative work practices, information technologies and working conditions : evidence for France

Askenazy, Philippe (contributor); Caroli, Eve (contributor) - 2006

"We investigate the impact of new work practices and information and communication technologies (ICT) on working conditions in France. We use a unique French dataset providing information on individual workers for the year 1998. New work practices include the use of quality norms, job rotation,...

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