Sammendrag
This doctoral thesis investigates how emerging ICTs affect individuals’ expectations and their subjective well-being. It extends an extant literature that has been devoted to studying the economic effects of ICTs, such as, for instance, in the literature studying the productivity and growth effects of the internet, and the more recent strand of research on the employment effects of automation and robotics. Digitalization efforts and related policies continue to disrupt existing social and economic activities, and represent the background and empirical setting that provide the foundations of this thesis. By focusing on the possible subjective welfare effects of emerging ICTs, this thesis presents novel empirical findings that shed light on the perspective of those who are directly exposed to their consequences—namely individual users and workers.
Artikkelliste
Paper I: Castellacci, Fulvio, and Henrik Schwabe. "Internet, unmet aspirations and the U-shape of life". Plos one 15.6 (2020): e0233099. The paper is included in the thesis in DUO, and also available at: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233099 |
Paper II: Henrik Schwabe. "Internet Use and Expectation Formation over the Life Cycle". Manuscript. To be published. The paper is removed from the thesis in DUO awaiting publishing. |
Paper III: Henrik Schwabe. "Automation, Fear of Replacement and the Subjective Well-Being of Workers". Manuscript. To be published. The paper is removed from the thesis in DUO awaiting publishing. |
Paper IV: Schwabe, Henrik, and Fulvio Castellacci. "Automation, workers’ skills and job satisfaction". Plos one 15.11 (2020): e0242929. An author version is included in the thesis. The published version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242929 |