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The Effect of Access to Information and Communication Technology on Household Labor Income : Evidence from One Laptop Per Child in Uruguay
Marandino, Joaquin - 2015
This paper examines the effect of the One Laptop Per Child program in Uruguay [Plan Ceibal] on household labor income. Since 2007, the Uruguayan government has delivered one laptop to every child and every teacher in public primary schools. This program has considerably increased access to...
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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...
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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
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Understanding the Technology of Computer Technology Diffusion : Explaining Computer Adoption Patterns and Implications for the Wage Structure
Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 2021
We review the empirical literature about the implications of the computerization of the labor market to see whether it can explain observed computer adoption patterns and (long-term) changes in the wage structure. Evidence from empirical micro studies turns out to be inconsistent with macro...
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The 'Dynamic' of Job Competition During the ICT Revolution
Chéron, Arnaud - 2012
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 data,...
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The Value of Information in Technology Adoption
Islam, Asad - 2019
We develop a theoretical model in which technology adoption decisions are based on the information received from others about the quality of a new technology and on their risk attitudes. We test the predictions of this model using a randomized field experiment in Bangladesh. We show that the...
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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
Corrado, Carol A. - 2014
This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...
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Information and Communication Technology, Hierarchy, and Job Design
Gerten, Elisa; Beckmann, Michael; Kräkel, Matthias - 2022
In recent decades, information and communication technology (ICT) has been associated with far-reaching changes in the design of jobs. However, it still remains unclear whether these changes will lead to more centralization or more decentralization in firms. Previous literature on this debate...
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Management as a Technology?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 … countries. We find large cross-country differences in the adoption of basic management practices, with the US having the highest …
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Use it or Lose it? The Impact of Computers on Earnings
Dolton, Peter - 2007
The extent to which the impact of computer skills depends on how computers are used is investigated using British data from an establishment survey, cohort studies and the European E-Living survey. We examine the importance of activity and frequency of use in these various data sources. We find...
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