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Effects of an Online Self-Assessment Tool on Teachers' Digital Competencies

Abbiati, Giovanni; Azzolini, Davide; Balanskat, Anja; … - 2023

We evaluate the effects of an online self-assessment tool on teachers' competencies and beliefs about ICT in education. The causal impact of the tool is evaluated through a randomized encouragement design, involving 7,391 lower secondary teachers across 11 European countries. Short-run impact...

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Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity : Evidence from Micro Data

Haskel, Jonathan - 2012

with a lowering of chain TFP by about 0.4% pa, about 40% of the post-1995 slowdown in UK retail TFP growth. The foregone …

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Labour Turnover and Labour Productivity in a Retail Organization

Siebert, Stanley; Zubanov, Nick; Chevalier, Arnaud; … - 2021

We study the impact of labour turnover on labour productivity using a panel dataset of 347 shops belonging to a large UK clothing retailer over 1995-1999. For the within-shop link - holding constant the shop's permanent characteristics - we observe an inverted U-shape effect of labour turnover...

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Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization

Siebert, William S.; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2021

We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be "commercial awareness", where able managers raise labour productivity by 17%...

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Digital Waste? Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology

Bockerman, Petri - 2019

study how digitization of prescriptions affects pharmaceutical use and health outcomes. We use comprehensive administrative …

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The Effects of Shared School Technology Access on Students Digital Skills in Peru

Bet, German - 2014

This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...

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Welfare States, Labor Markets, Social Investment and the Digital Transformation

Eichhorst, Werner - 2020

in essential service in health care, supermarket retail, postal services, security and waste disposal, continue to face … digitization and artificial intelligence, may still be overblown, intrusive change in the nature of work and employment relations … to digitization, together with their respective social investment aptitude, are currently preparing their welfare states …

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Digital Entrepreneurship Research : A Concise Introduction

Naudé, Wim - 2020

In the past few decades, technological progress has led to the digitization and digitalization of economies into what …

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Do German Works Councils Counter or Foster the Implementation of Digital Technologies?

Genz, Sabrina - 2018

As works councils' information, consultation and co-determination rights affect the decision process of the management, works councils play a key role in the implementation of digital technologies in establishments. However, previous research focuses on the potential of digital technologies to...

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German Financial State Aid During COVID-19 Pandemic : Higher Impact Among Digitalized Self-Employed

Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022

In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a 50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the impact...

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