The Role of Occupational Skill Sets in the Digital Transformation: How IT Progress Shapes Returns to Specialization and Social Skills
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- Fabienne Kiener & Christian Eggenberger & Uschi Backes-Gellner, 2024. "The role of occupational skill sets in the digital transformation: how IT progress shapes returns to specialization and social skills," Journal of Business Economics, Springer, vol. 94(1), pages 75-111, January.
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digitalization; IT progress; skills; education; human capital;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HRM-2022-05-02 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-ICT-2022-05-02 (Information and Communication Technologies)
- NEP-LMA-2022-05-02 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-TID-2022-05-02 (Technology and Industrial Dynamics)
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