This work attempts to shed light on the “information technology productivity paradox”. Employing a large data set of … Italian manufacturing firms we compute ICT marginal productivity across different cluster of firms and the impact of …/introduction behaviour and firm’s technological investment aptitude have any role in explaining ICT productivity. We find that low capital …

The Malmquist productivity index has many attractive features. One is that it decomposes into a technical efficiency … bias index makes no contribution to productivity change. …

productivity growth in semi- industrialized economies. These effects are hypothesized to operate through the negative impact of … firms to raise productivity in defense of profits, contributing to a low wage–low productivity trap. This paper presents … causal link between increased firm mobility and lower wages, as well as slower productivity growth over the period 1970–2000. …

industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity …. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity record present a threat to aggregate productivity growth and, hence … its own stagnating productivity growth. Moreover, the industry has not yet exhausted opportunities for tackling existing X …

been introduced. The model includes assumptions about the productivity gains of GM crops, possible consumer responses and …