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Bridging the digital divide in the G20: Skills for the new age

Chetty, Krish; Aneja, Urvashi; Mishra, Vidisha; Gcora, … - 2017

The digital divide in general, and between women and men in particular, is a manifestation of exclusion, poverty and inequality, and is likely to continue because of the effects of unemployment, poorly functioning digital skilling programmes and socio-cultural norms in some economies, and...

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Bridging the digital divide: Measuring digital literacy

Chetty, Krish; Qigui, Liu; Gcora, Nozibele; Josie, Jaya; … - 2017

To promote digital transformation, equal emphasis needs to be placed on digital skills development as to infrastructure development. Integral to investment in digital skills development is the subsequent management and evaluation of digital training programmes. This paper assesses mechanisms to...

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Export activity, innovation and institutions in Southern European nascent entrepreneurship

Marques, Helena - 2019

environment, government quality and support, education quality and entrepreneurship know-how, innovation environment and support … intensity of nascent entrepreneurs in four Southern European countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece), using Total Early …

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Data, measurement and initiatives for inclusive digitalization and future of work

Nofal, María B.; Coremberg, Ariel; Sartorio, Luca - 2018

As the pace of digitalization and automation accelerates globally, and more disruptive innovations in machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics are expected, new data sources and measurement tools are needed to complement existing valuable statistics and administrative data. This is...

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The future of work: How G20 countries can leverage digital-industrial innovations into stronger high-quality jobs growth

Annunziata, Marco; Bourgeois, Hendrik - 2018

A new wave of innovation is beginning to disrupt industry on a global scale. It constitutes a tremendous opportunity …. Academic research and the public debate have focused mostly on the threat that innovation poses to jobs and wages. This paper …. While some jobs will be displaced, the greatest impact of innovation will come in the way that many jobs will be transformed …

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An estimation of worker and firm effects with censored data

González de San Román, Ainara; Rebollo-Sanz, Yolanda F. - 2014

In this paper, the authors develop a new estimation method that is suitable for censored models with two high-dimensional fixed effects and that is based on a sequence of least squares regressions, yielding significant savings in computing time and hence making it applicable to frameworks in...

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The acceptance of earnings losses after voluntary mobility

Schneck, Stefan - 2010

Because rational individuals know that they cannot always get what they want, they are assumed to make appropriate adjustments. However, little is known about trade-off reasoning in labor market mobility decision making. The objective of this paper is to analyze the effect of commuting on the...

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Why do educated mothers matter? A model of parental help

Canova, Luciano; Vaglio, Alessandro - 2010

This paper investigates the role performed by mothers in affecting their childrens' performance at school. The article develops firstly a theoretical model in which household (parent-child pair) is treated as an individual, whose utility depends both on the performance at school of the student...

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Tougher educational exam leading to worse selection

de Carvalho Andrade, Eduardo; de Castro, Luciano I. - 2011

A parallel of education with transformative processes in standard markets suggest that a more severe control of the quality of the output will improve the overall quality of the education. This paper shows a somehow counterintuitive result: an increase in the exam difficulty may reduce the...

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Technological change, inequality and the collapse of the liberal order

Lastra-Anadón, Carlos; Muñiz, Manuel Antonio - 2017

We are witnessing the start of a deep and prolonged political convulsion. This convulsion is caused by the impact of technological change on how wealth is generated and distributed in our societies. Since the 1970s advanced economies have seen a strong productivity increase and stagnant labor...

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