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Jobs' amenability to working from home : evidence from skills surveys for 53 countries
Hatayama, Maho; Viollaz, Mariana; Winkler, Hernan - 2020
more intensive in physical/manual tasks, using less information and communications technology, and having poorer internet … development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home. The paper considers jobs' characteristics and uses internet access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231354
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Jobs' amenability to working from home : evidence from skills surveys for 53 countries
Hatayama, Maho; Viollaz, Mariana; Winkler, Hernan - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 22 (2023) 1, pp. 1-18
data on self-reported jobs’ characteristics and home internet access into a standardized measure. We find that jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014333850
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Jobs' amenability to working from home : evidence from skills surveys for 53 countries
Hatayama, Maho; Viollaz, Mariana; Winkler, Hernan - 2020
more intensive in physical/manual tasks, using less information and communications technology, and having poorer internet … development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home. The paper considers jobs' characteristics and uses internet access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241132
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Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2009
I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work − 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours. Surprisingly, these differences are greatest among highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157532
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Productivity, investment in ICT and market experimentation: micro evidence from Germany und the US
Haltiwanger, John; Jarmin, Ron; Schank, Thorsten - 2003
This paper examines the relationship between the use of advanced technologies such as ICT, and outcomes such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299237
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ICT, Clusters and Regional Cohesion: A Summary of Theoretical and Empirical Research
Maignan, Carole; Pinelli, Dino; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2003
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325076
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Productivity, investment in ICT and market experimentation : micro evidence from Germany und the US
Haltiwanger, John C.; Jarmin, Ronald S.; Schank, Thorsten - 2003
This paper examines the relationship between the use of advanced technologies such as ICT, and outcomes such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509836
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ICT, clusters and regional cohesion : a summary of theoretical and empirical research
Maignan, Carole; Pinelli, Dino; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2003
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591412
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An approximation to the digital divide among low income people in Colombia, Mexico and Perú: two composite indexes
Gutierrez, Luis Hernando; Gamboa, Luis Fernando - UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO - 2008
This study examines the determinants of information and communications technology(ICT) use and access of low … ICTs use acrossgender, age, education and income, using two composite indicators of ICT. The mainsimilarity across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005466563
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Does broadband internet affect fertility?
Billari, Francesco C.; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2017
The spread of high-speed Internet epitomizes the digital revolution, affecting several aspects of our life. Using … German panel data, we test whether the availability of broadband Internet influences fertility choices in a low …. (2014) to obtain causal estimates of the impact of broadband on fertility. We find positive effects of high-speed Internet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716082