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Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries Over 25 Years
Michaels, Guy - 2010
(with little effect on low educated workers performing manual non-routine tasks). Using industry level data on the US, Japan …
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The Industry Origins of Japanese Economic Growth
Jorgenson, Dale W.; Nomura, Koji - 2021
This paper presents new data on the sources of growth for the Japanese economy over the period 1960- 2000. The principal innovation is the incorporation of detailed information for individual industries, including those involved in the production of computers, communications equipment, and...
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Information Technology and the Japanese Economy
Jorgenson, Dale W.; Motohashi, Kazuyuki - 2021
In this paper we compare sources of economic growth in Japan and the United States from 1975 through 2003, focusing on … contribution of total factor productivity growth from the IT sector in Japan also increased, while the contributions of labor input … growth in Japan from for the next decade is substantially below that in the United States, mainly due to slower growth of …
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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Akerman, Anders - 2015
Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data to answer these questions. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points, and...
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Usage-Based Pricing and Demand for Residential Broadband
Nevo, Aviv - 2015
We estimate demand for residential broadband using high-frequency data from subscribers facing a three-part tariff. The three-part tariff makes data usage during the billing cycle a dynamic problem; thus, generating variation in the (shadow) price of usage. We provide evidence that subscribers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019517
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Evidence of a Modest Price Decline in Us Broadband Services
Greenstein, Shane M. - 2014
In this paper, we construct a price index for broadband services in the United States between 2004 and 2009. We analyze over 1500 service contracts offered by DSL and cable providers in the United States. We employ a mix of matched-model methods and hedonic price index estimations to adjust for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069640
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Winning Play in Spectrum Auctions
Bulow, Jeremy; Levin, Jonathan; Milgrom, Paul R. - 2021
We describe factors that make bidding in large spectrum auctions complex -- including exposure and budget problems, the role of timing within an ascending auction, and the possibilities for price forecasting -- and how economic and game-theoretic analysis can assist bidders in overcoming these...
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The Value of Broadband and the Deadweight Loss of Taxing New Technology
Goolsbee, Austan - 2021
With fixed costs of developing technology, taxes can generate large efficiency costs by slowing the rate of diffusion and these costs are not accounted for in conventional analyses. This paper illustrates this by analyzing the impact that taxes would have had on broadband Internet access at an...
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Politics 2.0 : The Multifaceted Effect of Broadband Internet on Political Participation
Campante, Filipe R. - 2013
We investigate the causal impact of broadband Internet on political participation using data from Italy. We show that this impact varies across different forms of political engagement and over time. Initially, broadband had a negative effect on turnout in national elections, driven by increased...
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The Broadband Bonus : Accounting for Broadband Internet's Impact on U.S. GDP
Greenstein, Shane M. - 2013
How much economic value did the diffusion of broadband create? We provide benchmark estimates for 1999 to 2006. We observe $39 billion of total revenue in Internet access in 2006, with broadband accounting for $28 billion of this total. Depending on the estimate, households generated $20 to $22...
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