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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
Corrado, Carol; Haskel, Jonathan; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the marginal impact of ICT capital is higher when it is complemented with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084334
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791349
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Does the 'New Economy' Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past?
Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
past, not in the future. The Internet fails as a Great Invention because much of its use involves substitution of existing … activities from one medium to another, because much Internet investment involves defence of market share rather than creation of … something of social value, because much Internet activity duplicates existing activity like mail order catalogues, while the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124176
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Competition, Innovation and Growth with Limited Commitment
Marimon, Ramon; Quadrini, Vincenzo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We study how barriers to competition - such as, restrictions to business start-up and strict enforcement of covenants or IPR - affect the investment in knowledge capital when contracts are not enforceable. These barriers lower the competition for human capital and reduce the incentive to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123709
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Growth Effects of Education and Social Capital in the OECD Countries
Temple, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the growth effects of education and social capital. The main focus is on the cross-country evidence for the OECD countries, but the paper also briefly reviews evidence from labour economics, to clarify where empirical work on education using macro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136728
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Women's Liberation: What's in It for Men?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789186
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Economic Growth and the Swedish Model
Henrekson, Magnus; Jonung, Lars; Stymne, Joakim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
We examine the growth performance of Sweden in the post-World War II period, focusing on explaining the relative decline of economic growth in Sweden since the early 1970's. The hypothesis that the relative decline is a consequence of productivity catch-up is rejected. A number of potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791604
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British Economic Growth Since 1945: Relative Economic Decline .... and Renaissance?
Bean, Charles R; Crafts, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
The paper contains a thorough review of explanations for the weak British growth performance of the 1950s through the 1970s and an assessment of the long-term implications of the 1980s attempt to escape from relative decline. The analysis draws on recent work in growth theory and places...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792362
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Growth, Distance to Frontier and Composition of Human Capital
Aghion, Philippe; Meghir, Costas; Vandenbussche, Jérôme - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We examine the contribution of human capital to economy-wide technological improvements through the two channels of innovation and imitation. We develop a theoretical model showing that skilled labour has a higher growth-enhancing effect closer to the technological frontier under the reasonable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792394
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Information Technology, Efficient Restructuring and the Productivity Puzzle
Grüner, Hans Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
(ICT). But why have the same technologies not similarly increased Europe's labour productivity? This paper provides a … improvement in the ICT can yield significant increases in labour productivity if - and only if - the organization is drastically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124167