This paper assesses the importance of digitalization in Germany and other developed countries with a particular …

accelerate digitalization. But digitally operated firms could not always operate successfully during the pandemic, splitting …

capacities. At the same time, digitalization has increasingly been touted as a key pathway for mitigating economic losses from … points during the pandemic compared to digitally-constrained firms, suggesting that digitalization acted as a hedge during …

the employment development of individual workers exposed to digitalization. We use a unique linked employer-employee data … set for Germany and a direct measure of the first-time introduction of cutting-edge digitalization technologies in … effects across skill groups, occupational tasks performed, and gender. Employment reactions to digitalization are most …