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Artificial intelligence against COVID-19 : an early review
Naudé, Wim - 2020
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a potentially powerful tool in the fight against the COVID- 19 pandemic. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, there has been a scramble to use AI. This article provides an early, and necessarily selective review, discussing the contribution of AI to the fight...
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COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being : evidence from Google Trends
Brodeur, Abel; Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; … - 2020
search intensity for boredom in Europe and the US. We also found a significant increase in searches for loneliness, worry and …
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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 … aftermath of Coronavirus pandemic that is likely to turn into the worst recession since the second world war? Empirically, this …
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What COVID-19 may leave behind : technology-related job postings in Canada
Bellatin, Alejandra; Galassi, Gabriela - 2022
We use data from online job postings listed on a job board to study how the demand for jobs linked to new technologies during the COVID-19 crisis responded to pandemic mitigation policies. We classify job postings into a standard occupation classification, using text analytics, and we group...
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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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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. Most innovations were permanent, not due to acceleration of existing plans, thus the pandemic yields longterm …
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American older adults in the time of COVID-19 : vulnerability types, aging attitudes, and emotional responses
Fu, Mingqi; Guo, Jing; Chen, Xi; Han, Boxun; Ahmed, Farooq - 2022
With 1582 respondents from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), this study investigates the heterogeneity in older adults' vulnerability and examines the relationship between vulnerability types, aging attitudes and emotional responses. International Positive and Negative Affect Schedule...
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Brilliant technologies and brave entrepreneurs : a new narrative for African manufacturing
Naudé, Wim - 2018
In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development. Despite failing to industrialize in the past, there may be a new window of opportunity. This is due to the convergence of what has been called "brilliant" new technologies associated...
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Learning at home: distance learning solutions and child development during the COVID-19 lockdown
Champeaux, Hugues; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Marchetta, Francesca - 2020
School closures, forced by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, impacted on children's lives and their learning process. There will likely be substantial and persistent disparities between families in terms of educational outcomes. Distant learning solutions adopted by schools have been...
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Fathers matter: intra-household responsibilities and children's wellbeing during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy
Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca; Pieroni, Luca - 2020
The lockdown declared during the Spring 2020 because of the COVID-19 outbreak caused a reallocation of market and household work. A the same time school closures in many countries impacted on children's lives and their learning process. In Italy, schools and nurseries have been closed during...
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