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Knowledge and economic progress: The role of social technologies
Eggertson, Thráinn - 2008
I focus on the independent role of social innovation in economic progress. Modern theory of economic growth and development emphasizes endowments, power, incentives, and physical technology, paying scant attention to knowledge of social systems as a scarce resource. I reverse these procedures by...
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Counting gigs: How can we measure the scale of online platform work?
Piasna, Agnieszka - 2020
The potential transformation of labour markets by the emergence of online labour platforms has triggered an intense academic, media and policy debate, but its true scale remains speculation. Nevertheless, adequate policy responses hinge on a good understanding of dynamics - something that will...
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What Follows Tertiarisation? Structural Change and the Role of Knowledge-based Services
Peneder, Michael; Kaniovski, Serguei; Dachs, Bernhard - 2001
The rise of the service economy has been the predominant pattern of structural change in the twentieth century. This article investigates the driving forces behind the recent stages of this development. Focusing on international input - output data from the early 1970s to the 1990s, a...
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Changing Tides for the Welfare State - An Essay
Lindbeck, Assar - 2001
Recent developments in society have generated misalignment between the welfare state and socio-economic conditions and preferences. This paper emphasis developments in the labor market and the structure, stability and preferences of the family, as well as macroeconomic changes. The latter...
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The Next Phase in the Digital Revolution: Platforms, Abundant Computing, Growth and Employment
Zysman, John; Kenney, Martin - 2016
This report argues that computer-intensive automation (CIAutomation) is likely to change the nature of work and manufacturing value creation in the emerging Platform Economy. The industrial and service changes based on low-cost computation, as they become more generalized, may reverse Robert...
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Tulevaisuuden työmarkkinat
Kauhanen, Antti - 2014
Information and communications technology, global value chains, and population ageing are changing the structures of the labour market. These three factors affect the tasks carried out in Finland in the future and the division of labour between humans and computers. The changes are taking place...
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München führender Standort der deutschen Medien- und IT-Wirtschaft
Geppert, Kurt; Mundelius, Marco - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 51/52, pp. 773-777
Medien und Informationstechnologie gehören in vielen Regionen zu den wirtschaftspolitischen Schwerpunktfeldern, und auch die Bundesregierung ist auf diesem Gebiet standortpolitisch aktiv - zum Beispiel im Rahmen der nationalen "Informationstechnologie-Gipfel". Die einzelnen Segmente dieses...
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Informationsgesellschaft ohne Information: Kommentar
Wagner, Gert G. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 18, pp. 312
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A welfare analysis of "junk" information and spam filters
Falkinger, Josef - 2008
This paper analyses the equilibrium effects of individual information filters. Information is modelled as advertisements which are distributed across a population of consumers with heterogeneous preferences. An advertisement that provides knowledge about a product with little or no utility for a...
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Wissensgesellschaft als Herausforderung für ländlich-periphere Regionen: Beispiele aus Nordostdeutschland
Stein, Axel; Wiegand, Timm Sebastian; Dehne, Peter; … - 2016
Die Heuristik einer dreidimensionalen Wissensgesellschaft wird in diesem Band aufgegriffen und weiterentwickelt. Die … soziale, die ökonomische und die technische Dimension der Wissensgesellschaft werden im theoretischen Teil ausdifferenziert … Vielschichtigkeit der Wissensgesellschaft in ländlich-peripheren Räumen ab. Erste Konturen, wie die Wissensgesellschaft in diesen Räumen …
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