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La productividad en la industria española: Evidencia microeconómica
Huergo, Elena; Moreno, Lourdes - EconWPA - 2005
El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer una revisión de las principales regularidades que, desde una óptica microeconómica, se han observado en los trabajos que analizan la evolución de la productividad y los determinantes de su crecimiento en la economía española durante las últimas...
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ICT productivity and firm propensity to innovative investment: learning effect evidence from italina micro data
Atzeni, Gianfranco Enrico; Carboni, Oliviero Antonio - EconWPA - 2005
introduction). However, what really matters in explaining ICT productivity is the level of innovation the new capital embodies. In …
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Creative Destruction: Business Survival Strategies in the Global Internet Economy
McKnight, Lee W. (contributor); Vaaler, Paul M. (contributor) - The MIT Press
More than fifty years ago, Joseph Schumpeter stated that processes intrinsic to a capitalist society produce a "creative destruction," whereby innovations destroy obsolete technologies, only to be assaulted in turn by newer and more efficient rivals. This book asks whether the current chaotic...
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Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age
Nuechterlein, Jonathan E.; Weiser, Philip J. - The MIT Press
Telecommunications policy profoundly affects the economy and our everyday lives. Yet accounts of important telecommunications issues tend to be either superficial (and inaccurate) or mired in jargon and technical esoterica. In Digital Crossroads, Jonathan Nuechterlein and Philip Weiser offer a...
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Information Technology as an Engine of Broad-Based Growth in India
Singh, Nirvikar - EconWPA - 2004
In this paper, we survey some of the developments in India’s IT sector, and prospects for broad-based growth led by this sector. We examine the IT sector, discussing the role of software versus hardware, the growth pattern of the software industry and software exports, and the potential...
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Information Technology and India’s Economic Development
Singh, Nirvikar - EconWPA - 2004
This paper discusses the possibilities for broad-based IT-led economic growth in India, including increasing value-added, using better telecom links to capture more benefits domestically through offshore development for developed country firms, greater spillovers to the local economy, broadening...
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Child Labor and Fertility
Schrepler, Ramona - EconWPA - 2003
This essay analyzes the economic causes and effects of household decisions concerning fertility, education and child labor when children can supplement family income early in life and must support their parents in old age as adults. Parents, who raise and educate children for both financial and...
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Innovation, Market Structure and Economic Growth
Palma, Nuno Pedro Gonçalves - EconWPA - 2004
This paper presents a dynamic partial equilibrium model that endogenizes firms' investment decision on innovation …: product innovation causes horizontal expansion growth, and process innovation causes vertical expansion growth. Market … structure in different markets emerges as a consequence of different investment on innovation opportunities. Main variables that …
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