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individuals. This study aims to find out the relation between mobile technology and its effects on face- to- face communications … on both the quality and the quantity of face-to-face communications. The study concludes that mobile use by individuals … has reduced the time they spend engaging in face-to-face communications with each other because of the time spent on the …
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The article addresses the lack of focus, in the literature on work and communications technology, on the role played by …
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Technological changes are "the main engine of capitalism and evolution" (A. Toffler), "the fundamental driving force in transformation of an economy" (C. Freeman). The paper proposes a theoretical investigation of information and communication technologies evolution and their impact on the...
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The question of the spatial impacts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated intellectual and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the advent of the Internet brought a new surge of debate: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy from...
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This monograph compares the methodologies and progress of the different existing models of information and communication technology (ICT) use for broad-based development and economic growth in India. It will examine the role of complementary reforms in government administration and policies. The...
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An increasingly influential technological-discontinuity paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited...
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I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...
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Stronger productivity growth in the US than the EU over the late 1990s is widely attributed to faster, more widespread adoption of information and communication technology (ICT). The literature has emphasised complementarities in production between ICT and internal restructuring as an important...
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