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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

We study the earnings structure and the equilibrium assignment of workers when they exert intra-firm spillovers on each other. We allow for arbitrary spillovers provided output depends on some aggregate index of workers' skill. Despite the possibility of increasing returns to skills, equilibrium...

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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...

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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

We employ a unique data set on white-collar workers that combines direct observations of individual use of information technology as well as objective information on individual performance. The main hypothesis we examine is whether heavier users of IT are more productive, and if heavier users of...

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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 … not doing DO and/or are in the early stages of IT investment compare well with the macro numbers documenting a UK measured …

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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...

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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 natural advantage of being located in the US then...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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