Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 171
Cover Image
Information Technology Use and Productivity at the Individual Level
Gandal, Neil; King III, Charles; Alstyne, Marshall W. Van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
IT are more productive, and if heavier users of IT are indeed more productive, how does this increase in productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124149
Cover Image
Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114281
Cover Image
On the Distribution of Income and Worker Assignment under Intra-Firm Spillovers, with an Application to Ideas And Networks
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
human capital, productivity and creativity, i.e. the ability to produce ideas that may be duplicated over a network. Under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123995
Cover Image
It's Not What You Make, It's How You Use IT: Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the IT Revolution Across Countries
Bayoumi, Tamim; Haacker, Markus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper analyses the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (Information Technology) goods across a wide range of countries. Using two separate methodologies and datasets, we find that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124148
Cover Image
Information Technology, Organisational Change and Productivity
Crespi, Gustavo; Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We examine the relationships between productivity growth, IT investment and organisational change (DO) using UK firm … effect on productivity growth, (c) non-IT investment and DO do not interact in their effect on productivity growth. Some new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136706
Cover Image
The Demand for Coordination
Dessein, Wouter; Santos, Jesus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i) Task specialization and the division of labour is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497860
Cover Image
Mobile Phone Coverage and Producer Markets: Evidence from West Africa
Aker, Jenny; Fafchamps, Marcel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Expansion in mobile phone coverage has improved access to information throughout the developing world, particularly within sub-Saharan Africa. The existing evidence suggests that information technology has improved market efficiency and reduced consumer prices for certain commodities. There are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083580
Cover Image
The distinct effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on firm organization
Bloom, Nicholas; Garicano, Luis; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Guided by theories of management by exception, we study the impact of Information and Communication Technology on worker and plant manager autonomy and span of control. The theory suggests that information technology is a decentralizing force, whereas communication technology is a centralizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084130
Cover Image
Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover
Bauer, Thomas; Bender, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel dataset to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792471
Cover Image
Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper studies a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom; where within a given occupation it may harm some workers while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791349