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Smart Cities : Quality of Life, Productivity, and the Growth Effects of Human Capital

Shapiro, Jesse M. - 2005

From 1940 to 1990, a 10 percent increase in a metropolitan area's concentration of college-educated residents was associated with a .8 percent increase in subsequent employment growth. Instrumental variables estimates support a causal relationship between college graduates and employment growth,...

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FinTech in Sub-Saharan Africa : What Has Worked Well, and What Hasn't

Yermack, David L. - 2018

entrepreneurship in the developing world. The electrical, telecom, and Internet infrastructure required for FinTech has been built out …

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Digitization and the Contract Labor Market : A Research Agenda

Agrawal, Ajay - 2013

of inquiry in this market setting that are central to the broader digitization research agenda: 1) How will the … digitization of this market influence the distribution of economic activity (geographic distribution of work, income distribution … acquisition, machine-aided recommendations)?; 3) How will the digitization of this market affect social welfare (increased …

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Estimating the Welfare Effects of Digital Infrastructure

Greenstein, Shane M. - 1996

While much economic policy presumes that more information infrastructure yields higher economic returns, little empirical work measures the magnitudes of these returns. We examine investment by local exchange telephone companies in fiber optic cable, ISDN lines and signal seven software,...

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Accounting for Innovation in Consumer Digital Services : IT Still Matters

Byrne, David - 2019

This paper develops a framework for measuring digital services in the face of ongoing innovations in the delivery of content to consumers. We capture what Brynjolfsson and Saunders (2009) call "free goods" as the capital services generated by connected consumers' stocks of IT digital goods, a...

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The Digitalization of Money

Brunnermeier, Markus Konrad - 2019

The ongoing digital revolution may lead to a radical departure from the traditional model of monetary exchange. We may see an unbundling of the separate roles of money, creating fiercer competition among specialized currencies. On the other hand, digital currencies associated with large platform...

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Demography, Unemployment, Automation, and Digitalization : Implications for the Creation of (Decent) Jobs, 2010–2030

Bloom, David E. - 2018

Globally, an estimated 734 million jobs will be required between 2010 and 2030 to accommodate recent and ongoing demographic shifts, account for plausible changes in labour force participation rates, and achieve target unemployment rates of at or below 4 percent for adults and at or below 8...

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Digital Innovation and the Distribution of Income

Guellec, Dominique - 2017

Income inequalities have increased in most OECD countries over the past decades; particularly the income share of the top 1%. In this paper we argue that the growing importance of digital innovation - new products and processes based on software code and data - has increased market rents, which...

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Computerization, Obsolescence, and the Length of Working Life

Hudomiet, Peter; Willis, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper analyzes how computerization affected the labor market outcomes of older workers between 1984 and 2017. Using the computerization supplements of the Current Population Survey (CPS) we show that different occupations were computerized at different times, older workers tended to start...

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Twisting the Demand Curve : Digitalization and the Older Workforce

Barth, Erling - 2020

This paper uses U.S. Census Bureau panel data that link firm software investment to worker earnings. We regress the log of earnings of workers by age group on the software investment by their employing firm. To unpack the potential causal factors for differential software effects by age group we...

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