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ICT Adoption in Micro and Small Firms : Can Internet Access Improve Labor Productivity?

Viollaz, Mariana - 2018

This paper analyzes the impact of internet adoption on labor productivity in Peruvian micro and small manufacturing firms over the period 2011-2013. Instrumental variables estimates show that internet adoption: (i) increases firms' labor productivity; (ii) reallocates employment away from...

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The Impact of Digital Technologies on Worker Tasks : Do Labor Policies Matter?

Almeida, Rita - 2018

Between 1999 and 2006, Brazilian cities experienced strong growth in the provision of internet services, driven in part by the privatization of the telecommunications industry. A main concern of policymakers is that digital technology replaces routine, manual tasks, displacing lower-skilled...

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Communications Technology and Terrorism

Mahmood, Rafat - 2020

By facilitating the flow of information in society, communications technology (CT; e.g., newspapers, radio, television, the internet) can help terrorists to (i) spread their message, (ii) recruit followers, and (iii) coordinate among group members. However, CT also facilitates monitoring and...

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Sources of the German Productivity Demise - Tracing the Effects of Industry-Level ICT Investment

Eicher, Theo S. - 2007

While the US experienced two successive labor productivity surges in 1995 and 2000, Germany's productivity declined dramatically during the same period. We examine the sources of Germany's productivity demise using the ifo industry growth accounting database that provides detailed industry-level...

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Adoption and Diffusion of Health Information Technology - The Case of Primary Care Clinics

Callaway, Brantly; Ghosal, Vivek - 2021

We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a large sample of physician clinics from several States in the U.S. Ours is one of the first studies to intensively investigate primary care clinics. These clinics are important as...

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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...

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Technology and Education : Computers, Software, and the Internet

Bulman, George - 2015

A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...

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Returns to ICT Skills

Falck, Oliver - 2016

How important is mastering information and communication technology (ICT) in modern labor markets? We answer this question with unique data on ICT skills tested in 19 countries. Our two instrumental-variable models exploit technologically induced variation in broadband Internet availability that...

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A Simple Model of Mergers and Innovation

Federico, Giulio - 2017

their innovation efforts post-merger while the outsiders to the merger respond by increasing their effort. A merger tends to … reduce overall innovation. Consumers are always worse off after a merger. Our model calls into question the applicability of … the “inverted-U” relationship between innovation and competition to a merger setting …

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Sequential Innovation, Naked Exclusion, and Upfront Lump-Sum Payments

Choi, Jay Pil - 2017

We present a potentially benign naked exclusion mechanism that can be applied to sequential innovation; a non …-patentable original innovation by the incumbent supplier fosters derivative innovation by rivals. In the absence of an appropriate legal … innovator. The former ban precludes the exclusion of socially beneficial derivative innovation by causing the incumbent supplier …

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