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This dissertation consists of four essays in the economics of digital transformation and specifically considers the link between geography and digitalization in the know-ledge economy.
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The COVID-19 crisis has forced great societal changes, including forcing many to work remotely (work from home) in an effort to increase social distancing. The ability to work fromhome has long been considered a perk, but we have few estimates of how many are actually able to work from home....
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evaluate whether the corresponding tasks can be performed from home based on the descriptions from the International Standard …
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This paper examines the relationship between the use of advanced technologies such as ICT, and outcomes such as …
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The question of the spatial impacts of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated the intellectual … and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the rise of the Internet brought a new surge of debate …: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy from the constraints of geography (Cairncross, 1997) bringing …
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In spite of the growing literature on polarization, relatively little is known about the individual-level patterns underlying the decline of routine occupations and its link with informal employment in a middle-income country context. To shed light on this, we examine the ows of formal and...
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largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some tasks can be placed at distance, while … others require proximity. We construct a measure of task connectivity to investigate which tasks are more likely to require … proximity relative to others. Our results suggest that cities with higher shares of connected tasks experienced higher …
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the industry's share of tasks replaceable by robots-to identify the impact of robot usage on employment. The data allow us …
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Empirical evidence for the US shows that migrants increase the productivity of regions. To explain the impact of migrants on the average firm productivity we construct a general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition a la Melitz (2003). We consider heterogeneous firms with different...
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-)advantages in performing certain tasks and draw implications on the labor market outcomes. Using this we construct a simple model …
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