| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29102 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29102 |
| Internet Access and its Implications for Productivity, Inequality, and Resilience | |
| Jose Maria Barrero; Nicholas Bloom; Steven J. Davis | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-08-02 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | About one-fifth of paid workdays will be supplied from home in the post-pandemic economy, and more than one-fourth on an earnings-weighted basis. In view of this projection, we consider some implications of home internet access quality, exploiting data from the new Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. Moving to high-quality, fully reliable home internet service for all Americans (“universal access”) would raise earnings-weighted labor productivity by an estimated 1.1% in the coming years. The implied output gains are $160 billion per year, or $4 trillion when capitalized at a 4% rate. Estimated flow output payoffs to universal access are nearly three times as large in economic disasters like the COVID-19 pandemic. Our survey data also say that subjective well-being was higher during the pandemic for people with better home internet service conditional on age, employment status, earnings, working arrangements, and other controls. In short, universal access would raise productivity, and it would promote greater economic and social resilience during future disasters that inhibit travel and in-person interactions. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Economics of Information ; Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment ; Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Compensation ; COVID-19 |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29102 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586776 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jose Maria Barrero,Nicholas Bloom,Steven J. Davis. Internet Access and its Implications for Productivity, Inequality, and Resilience. 2021. |
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