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Finances of Egyptian listed firms
Love, Inessa - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003055085
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Jobs' amenability to working from home : evidence from skills surveys for 53 countries
Hatayama, Maho; Viollaz, Mariana; Winkler, Hernan - 2020
development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home. The paper considers jobs' characteristics and uses internet access … more intensive in physical/manual tasks, using less information and communications technology, and having poorer internet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241132
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Do information technologies improve teenagers' sexual education? : evidence from a randomized evaluation in Colombia
Chong, Alberto; González-Navarro, Marco; Karlan, Dean; … - 2019
This study reports results from a randomized evaluation of a mandatory six-month Internet-based sexual education course …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022264
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Disaggregating the impact of the internet on international trade
Osnago, Alberto; Tan, Shawn W. - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561402
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Economywide and sectoral impacts on workers of Brazil's internet rollout
Dutz, Mark Andrew; Mation, Lucas Ferreira; O'Connell, … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663390
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Does the internet reduce gender gaps? : the case of Jordan
Viollaz, Mariana; Winklers, Hernan - 2020
and 2016 to identify the effect of internet adoption on labor force participation. Using panel data at the individual … level with rich information on labor market outcomes, internet use and gender-biased social norms, the article finds that … internet adoption increases female labor force participation but has no effect on male labor force participation. The increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230805
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Internet job search, employment, and wage growth : evidence from the Arab Republic of Egypt
El-Mallakh, Nelly - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230837
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The welfare effects of mobile broadband internet : evidence from Nigeria
Bahia, Kalvin; Castells, Pau; Cruz, Genaro; Masaki, Takaaki - 2020
This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the largest economy and mobile broadband market in Africa. The analysis exploits a unique dataset that integrates three waves of a nationally representative longitudinal household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240752
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Winners and losers from COVID-19 : global evidence from Google search
Abay, Kibrom A.; Tafere, Kibrom; Woldemichael, Andinet - 2020
As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the world, researchers are attempting to quantify the economic fallout from the pandemic as it continues to unfold. Estimating the economic impacts of a prevailing pandemic is fraught with uncertainties about the epidemiology of the disease and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241326
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Broadband internet, labor demand, and total factor productivity in Colombia
Dominioni, Goran; Heine, Dirk; Martinez Romera, Beatriz - 2018
This paper studies the relationship between information and communication technology, labor demand, and total factor productivity in Colombia. It estimates total factor productivity for the Colombian manufacturing sector using a method that assumes a law of motion where total factor productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806758