2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2021.102215
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Does digitalization promote net job creation? Empirical evidence from WAEMU countries

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“…Although, as some scholars pointed out, ICT applications including the Internet have improved labor productivity, they will also replace some jobs and reduce employment (Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2011; Frey & Osborne, 2017). However, the current research gives this contradictory conclusion, and found that Internet access promotes the employment rate in general (Avom et al., 2021; Hjort & Poulsen, 2019; Kolko, 2012). Other scholars focused on the relationship between Internet development and efficiency from the perspective of sustainable and green development.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 72%
“…Although, as some scholars pointed out, ICT applications including the Internet have improved labor productivity, they will also replace some jobs and reduce employment (Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2011; Frey & Osborne, 2017). However, the current research gives this contradictory conclusion, and found that Internet access promotes the employment rate in general (Avom et al., 2021; Hjort & Poulsen, 2019; Kolko, 2012). Other scholars focused on the relationship between Internet development and efficiency from the perspective of sustainable and green development.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 72%
“…They find positive effects of fast Internet on the average income, however with heterogeneous effects as less-educated workers see their revenue decreasing. Similarly, Avom et al (2021) find that ICT have a positive impact on the creation of high-skilled jobs but a negative one on low-skilled jobs.…”
Section: Enhanced Productivitymentioning
confidence: 86%
“…According to the authors, this effect is caused due to both market expansion and complementarity between labor and additive manufacturing technologies. Avom, Dadegnon, & Igue (2021) revealed that technological development creates more employment than displacements in West African countries. According to Dottori (2021), no harmful impact on total employment was available in Italy caused by the effects of robots from the early 1990s up to 2016.…”
Section: Previous Empirical Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%