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Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
Park, Yooki; Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2021
As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...
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Adoption of New Information and Communications Technologies in the Workplace Today
Bresnahan, Timothy - 2016
The invention of new applications based on information and communications technologies (ICTs) has had two economic effects up to now. These applications have transformed production, creating value for applications-inventing companies and their customers and increasing economic growth through...
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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows
Horton, John J. - 2017
Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, their ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking...
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Digitization and the Contract Labor Market : A Research Agenda
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2014
of inquiry in this market setting that are central to the broader digitization research agenda: 1) How will the … digitization of this market influence the distribution of economic activity (geographic distribution of work, income distribution … acquisition, machine-aided recommendations)?; 3) How will the digitization of this market affect social welfare (increased …
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Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms?
Stanton, Christopher; Thomas, Catherine - 2023
This paper estimates the magnitude and distribution of surplus from the knowledge worker gig economy using data from an online labor market. Labor demand elasticities determine workers’ wages, and buyers’ past market experience shapes both their job posting frequency and hiring rates. We...
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Labour Market Regulations and Capital Intensity
Cette, Gilbert - 2016
On the basis of a country*industry unbalanced panel data sample for 14 OECD countries and 18 industries covering the years 1988 to 2007, this study proposes an econometric investigation of the effects of the OECD Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) indicator on capital intensity for four...
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Information Technology and Research and Development Impacts on Productivity and Skills : Looking for Correlations on French Firm Level Data
Mairesse, Jacques; Greenan, Nathalie; Topiol-Bensaid, Agnes - 2021
The main objective of the study is descriptive. We set out to explore the (cor)relations between five IT and R&D indicators and measures of labor and total factor productivity, average wage and skill composition, on four panel data samples of French manufacturing and services firms over the two...
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Upstairs, Downstairs : Computer-Skill Complementarity and Computer-Labor Substitution on Two Floors of a Large Bank
Autor, David H.; Levy, Frank S.; Murnane, Richard J. - 2021
We describe how a single technological innovation, the introduction of image processing of checks, led to distinctly different changes in the structure of jobs in two departments of a large bank overseen by one group of managers. In the downstairs deposit processing department, image processing...
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Skill Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality : Some Problems and Puzzles
Card, David; DiNardo, John E. - 2021
The rise in wage inequality in the U.S. labor market during the 1980s is usually attributed to skill-biased technical change (SBTC), associated with the development of personal computers and related information technologies. We review the evidence in favor of this hypothesis, focusing on the...
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The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change : An Empirical Exploration
Autor, David H.; Levy, Frank S.; Murnane, Richard J. - 2021
We apply an understanding of what computers do -- the execution of procedural or rules-based logic -- to study how computer technology alters job skill demands. We contend that computer capital (1) substitutes for a limited and well-defined set of human activities, those involving routine...
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