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Internet Access and its Implications for Productivity, Inequality, and Resilience
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
About one-fifth of paid workdays will be supplied from home in the post-pandemic economy, and more than one-fourth on an earnings-weighted basis. In view of this projection, we consider some implications of home internet access quality, exploiting data from the new Survey of Working Arrangements...
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Mandatory Unbundling and Irreversible Investment in Telecom Networks
Pindyck, Robert S. - 2004
This paper addresses the impact on investment incentives of the network sharing arrangements mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, with a focus on the implications of irreversible investment. Although the goal is to promote competition, the sharing rules now in place reduce incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468396
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457840
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The Impact of Municipal Broadband Restrictions on COVID-19 Labor Market Outcomes
Hegde, Saket S.; Van Parys, Jessica - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic initiated a trend in "work-from-home (WFH)," but workers need reliable and fast internet connections (e.g., broadband) to work from home. Yet, as of January 2020, 18 states had legally restricted local governments and cooperatives from building their own broadband...
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The Evolution of Advanced Large Scale Information Infrastructure in the United States
Greenstein, Shane M. - 1997
Is private industry investing in backbone digital technology in a manner consistent with social policy? To address this question we assemble highly disaggregate data and compute indices for the geographic distribution of advanced backbone information technology in computing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472895
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Do Call Centers Promote School Enrollment? Evidence from India
Oster, Emily - 2010
Over the last two decades in India there have been large increases in outsourced jobs and large increases in schooling rates, particularly in English. Existing evidence suggests the trends are broadly related. In this paper we explore how localized these impacts are; this has implications for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462729
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Benchmark Regulation of Multiproduct Firms : An Application to the Rail Industry
Wilson, Wesley W. - 2018
A number of formerly regulated multiproduct industries have a transitional or permanent residual regulatory mandate to protect consumers from "excessive" prices. The legislation that deregulated most rail rates contains a statutory mandate for the regulator to protect shippers from "excessive"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480919
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462518
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Information Technology and the Japanese Economy
Jorgenson, Dale W. - 2005
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 Industry Origins of Japanese Economic Growth
Jorgenson, Dale W. - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466871