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The question of the spatial impacts of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated the intellectual … and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the rise of the Internet brought a new surge of debate …: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy from the constraints of geography (Cairncross, 1997) bringing …
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We study the effects of female immigration on the labor supply of Dominican-born women of different educational levels and family structures. Using individual-level data for 2003 - 2016 and exploiting geographic variation in early immigrant settlements together with time variation in female...
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We evaluate the impacts of a randomized job-fair intervention in which jobseekers and employers can meet at low cost. The intervention generates few hires, but it lowers participants' expectations and causes both firms and workers to invest more in search as predicted by a theoretical model;...
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Information Network. We show that within-occupation reorientation away from routine tasks: i) accounts for 1/3 of the decline in …
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Developing and emerging economies face enormous challenges to reconcile economic development and job creation with decarbonization. An essential aspect of such "early-stage" decoupling of growth and carbon emissions is to develop a skill base that favours the diffusion of green productions and...
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potential impact of artificial intelligence on occupations and their associated tasks. Our methodology employs synthetic AI … innovations could replace job tasks and skills. The index not only considers task automation, but also contextual factors such as …
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