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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; Ahmad, … - 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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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 … size-weighted average management score. We present a formal model of "Management as a Technology", and structurally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988568
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Technology and the Demand for Skill : An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences
Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John; Lane, Julia; … - 2021
We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …
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Were Covid and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Using micro-data on six surveys the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1993-2022, Eurobarometer 1991-2022, the UK Covid Social Survey Panel, 2020-2022, the European Social Survey 2002-2020 and the IPSOS Happiness Survey 2018-2023 we show...
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Social Connections and COVID-19 Vaccination
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Firsin, Oleg - 2023
This paper unpacks the effects of social networks on monthly county-level COVID19 vaccinations in the US. To parse out short-term community-level externalities where people help each other overcome immediate access barriers, from learning spillovers regarding vaccine efficacy that naturally take...
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"Covid-19 and Income Inequality in OECD Countries : " a Methodological Comment
Stark, Oded - 2023
Wildman (2021), who identifies "a clear association between income inequality [measured by the Gini coefficient] and COVID-19 cases and deaths," concludes that "a goal of government should be to reduce [income] inequalities and [thereby] improve [the COVID-19 outcomes /] underlying health of...
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Learning During the Pandemic : Evidence from Uzbekistan
Iqbal, Syedah; Patrinos, Harry A. - 2023
School closures induced by the COVID-19 pandemic led to concerns about student learning. This paper evaluates the effect of school closures on student learning in Uzbekistan, using a unique dataset that allows assessing change in learning over time. The findings show that test scores in math for...
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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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Social Gradients in Employment During and after the Covid-19 Pandemic
Alstadsæter, Annette; Bratsberg, Bernt; Markussen, Simen; … - 2023
We examine employment effects of the COVID-19 crisis in Norway during the initial lockdown, through the subsequent recovery, and after the dust had settled. While we identify large and socially skewed effects of the crisis through its early phases, we find no long-term effects on employees...
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