Raising the Barcode Scanner : Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector
Barcodes and barcode scanners transformed the grocery industry in the 1970s. I use store-level data from the 1972, 1977, and 1982 Census of Retail Trade, matched to data on store scanner installations, to estimate scanners' effect on labor productivity. I find that early scanners increased a store's labor productivity, on average, by approximately 4.5 percent in the first few years. The effect was larger in stores carrying more packaged products, consistent with the presence of network externalities. Short-run gains were small relative to fixed costs, suggesting that the impediment to widespread adoption of the new technology was profitability, not coordination problems
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2014
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Authors: | Basker, Emek |
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[2014]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Einzelhandel | Retail trade | Produktivität | Productivity | Technischer Fortschritt | Technological change |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (50 p) |
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Series: | NBER Working Paper ; No. w17825 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments February 2012 erstellt |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066654
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