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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 … to digitization, together with their respective social investment aptitude, are currently preparing their welfare states …
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This paper provides some of the first evidence of the relationship between eco-innovation and employment. Adopting a O*NET based task approach, in a study of the Dutch firms, we show that eco-innovation has no impact on overall employment. However, compared to non- eco-innovators there is an...
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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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This paper focuses on identifying determinants of "automatability risk", namely the propensity of EU employees being in jobs with high risk of substitutability by machines, robots or other algorithmic processes, and uncovers its impact on labour market outcomes. Using relevant data on tasks and...
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Between 1999 and 2006, Brazilian cities experienced strong growth in the provision of internet services, driven in part by the privatization of the telecommunications industry. A main concern of policymakers is that digital technology replaces routine, manual tasks, displacing lower-skilled...
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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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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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inequalities in LCT adoption. We further contribute to the literature by employing Shapley-decomposition techniques to reveal the … socioeconomic inequalities in LCT adoption have fallen over the last decade but remained prevalent and highly significant. Analysis … who have recently adopted LCTs, are contributing to the reduction in the observed socioeconomic inequalities over time …
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Countries across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are in their third decade of independence. What impact does this have on the skills premium and does accession to the European Union have an impact on the returns to education? The returns to education in 28 transition and 20 non-transition...
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