Knowledge from customers, suppliers, competitors, universities, is a key input in the innovative process of firms. However, firms must have absorption capacity to take advantage of such external knowledge. Based on the concept of absorptive capacity, this paper aims to analyze the impact that...

This paper establishes that the rise in employer-provided training due to technological change has dampened the college wage premium. Using unique survey micro-data, I show that hightechnology firms provide more training overall, but the gap in training participation between high- and low-skill...

Advances in technology have always reshaped labor markets. Automating human labor has lead to job losses and creation but most of all, for an increasing demand for highly skilled workers. However, emerging AI innovations like ChatGPT may reduce labor demand in high skilled occupations previously...

Advances in technology have always reshaped labor markets. Automating human labor has lead to job losses and creation but most of all, for an increasing demand for highly skilled workers. However, emerging AI innovations like ChatGPT may reduce labor demand in high skilled occupations previously...

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...