Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is deeply ingrained in the identity of women in many societies, where it symbolizes feminine traits valued within these communities, such as purity or conformity to the community. This paper examines the impact of the expansion of fast internet, arguably a...

Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to profoundly transform and enrich experimental economic research. We propose a new software framework, "alter_ego", which makes it easy to design experiments between LLMs and to integrate LLMs into oTree-based experiments with human subjects. Our...

Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to profoundly transform and enrich experimental economic research. We propose a new software framework, "alter_ego", which makes it easy to design experiments between LLMs and to integrate LLMs into oTree-based experiments with human subjects. Our...

Since the first bitcoins were mined in 2009, a large number of blockchains and a vast number of different tokens have been created on the basis of distributed ledger technologies (DLT). The Web3 ecotope, with its essential characteristics such as decentralized transactions and anonymity, is...

Sailing ships persisted on emigrant voyages to Australia until the late nineteenth century and passage durations decreased by three weeks from the late 1840s to the mid-1880s. The shortening of voyages by sail has been linked to improvements in navigation and in sailing ship technology but...

This study quantifies the relationship between workplace digitalization, i.e., the increasing use of frontier technologies, and workers’ health outcomes using novel and representative German linked employer-employee data. Based on changes in individual-level use of technologies between 2011...

I construct and analyze a growth model in which technical change can increase unemployment. I first analyze the forces that deliver a constant steady state unemployment rate in this setting. Labor-saving technical change increases unemployment, which lowers wages and creates incentives for...

We investigate differences in labor demand between German automotive firms specializing in green propulsion technology and those with a focus on combustion engines. To this end, we introduce a firm-level labor demand index based on the near-universe of online job postings and firms’ patent...

Purpose: The major purpose of the paper is to explore, identify and highlight the general and specialized (sector-specific) long-term technology trends following the evolution of technology-intensive sectors in Greece during the last years. In a similar vein, sectoral differentiations have been...

Impact of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on economic growth, recently attracted high research intererst. Thus, it has been found that in the case of developed European economies the considered impact is significant. In general, ICT diffusion has significant impact on the...