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technologies (ICT) skills and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills yield significant positive returns … labor market, according to gender, across four Latin American countries. We find that information and communication … for both men and women. However, there is a significant gender gap that favors men on the STEM returns. There is also a …
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lower dispersion than the ICT-PURCHASE indicator; hence, in general, the digital gender divide or gap is usually lower when … ICT-USE is used in comparison with ICT-PURCHASE. The highest values of the digital gender gap in the EU, regardless of the …The aim of this study is to examine the digital gender divide in the European Union (EU) countries by applying two …
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such gender gaps have changed in recent years. METHODS: We use data from several surveys during the period 1997 to 2001 to …, but this gender gap in being online disappeared by 2000. However, once online, women remain less frequent and less intense … now, but gender differences in frequency and intensity of Internet usage remain …
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accessing digital platforms are more symmetric across gender than traditional trade costs, digital trade platforms can play an … important role in making trade more gender equal. To assess this hypothesis, we combine information on firms' participation in … the role of women-managed businesses in reducing gender earnings inequality, these results suggest that policies which …
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the first section of this review, I discuss these questions in light of six topics: the limited role for technology push …
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In a fast-paced world where information, resources, and markets are within reach with a swipe of a finger, access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) is essential to business development and growth. This study assesses the need for and use of ICTs by women entrepreneurs in...
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Does access to the broadband internet stimulate firm growth? In this paper, I analyze within-firm growth of established firms caused by the access to faster internet using geocoded social-security data. I identify firm responses to the access to the first generation of broadband internet and...
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application of new technologies. Topics covered include pressing issues surrounding public services, such as e-technology …
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