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Has COVID-19 Accelerated the Digital Transformation on the Labor Market?

  • Funded by IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Funder

    IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

  • Principal Investigator

    Georg Graetz, Terry Gregory, Florian Lehmer

  • Research Location

    Germany

  • Lead Research Institution

    N/A

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    Economic impacts

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

This project investigates whether the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation. Research will study how the firm-level relationship between technology adoption and labor demand has changed with the COVID-19 crisis and whether technologically more advanced firms are less affected. The project will exploit a new data base that includes pre- and post-crises survey information on technology adoption at the firm-level in Germany and which is linked to administrative data records from the Federal Employment Agency. The data base allows unique firm-level investigations on how firms and workers adopt to COVID-19 shock in digitalization