How is the Internet Changing Labor Market Arrangements? : Evidence from Telecommunications Reforms in Europe
This paper exploits variations in the timing of telecommunications reforms across Europe to analyze the relationship between the rise of alternative work arrangements and the emergence of the Internet. The paper evaluates whether sectors that are t...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/501981487269064888/How-is-the-internet-changing-labor-market-arrangements-evidence-from-telecommunications-reforms-in-Europe http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26143 |
| Summary: | This paper exploits variations in the
timing of telecommunications reforms across Europe to
analyze the relationship between the rise of alternative
work arrangements and the emergence of the Internet. The
paper evaluates whether sectors that are technologically
more dependent on information and communications
technologies experienced disproportionately larger changes
in their employment outcomes after telecommunications
reforms were introduced. The main results point to a
disproportionate increase in total employment, part-time
work, and home-based work among information and
communications technologies–intensive sectors after the
implementation of telecommunications reforms. The analysis
does not find a link between the incidence of temporary
employment, self-employment, second job holding, and
telecommunications reforms. The main results are robust to
several specifications. |
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