IT shields: Technology adoption and economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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SUBMITTER: Oikonomou M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9829607 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr
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IT shields: Technology adoption and economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Oikonomou Myrto M Pierri Nicola N Timmer Yannick Y
Labour economics 20230110
We study the labor market effects of information technology (IT) during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, using data on IT adoption covering almost three million establishments in the US. We find that in areas where firms had adopted more IT before the pandemic, the unemployment rate rose less in response to social distancing. IT shields all individuals, regardless of gender and race, except those with the lowest educational attainment. Instrumental variable estimates-leveraging historical rou ...[more]
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