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Productivity growth and the role of ICT in the United Kingdom: an industry view, 1970-2000

Oulton, Nicholas; Srinivasan, Sylaja - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970 … that ICT capital played an increasingly important, and in the 1990s the dominant, role in accounting for labour … productivity growth in the market sector. Econometric evidence also supports an important role for ICT. We also find econometric …

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Can mobile phones help control neglected tropical diseases?: experiences from Tanzania

Madon, Shirin; Amaguru, Jackline Olanya; Malecela, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

The increasing proliferation of mobiles offers possibilities for improving health systems in developing countries. A case in point is Tanzania which has piloted a mobile phone-based Management Information System (MIS) for the control of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) where village health...

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Long term implications of the ICT revolution: applying the lessons of growth theory and growth accounting

Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

How big a boost to long run growth can countries expect from the ICT revolution? I use the results of growth accounting …-sector model is required because of the very rapid rate at which the prices of ICT products have fallen in the past and are … expected to fall in the future. According to the two-sector model, the main boost to growth comes from ICT use, not ICT …

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The impact of computer use, computer skills and computer use intensity: evidence from WERS 2004

Dolton, Peter; Pelkonen, Panu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Computers and ICT have changed the way we live and work. The latest WERS 2004 provides a snapshot of how using ICT at …

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Convergence of firm-level productivity, globalisation, information technology and competition: evidence from France

Chevalier, Paul-Antoine; Lecat, Rémy; Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries are narrowly defined. So there is a significant opportunity for the least productive firms to catch up to the most productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore...

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Use IT or lose IT?: the impact of computers on earnings

Dolton, Peter; Makepeace, Gerry; Robinson, Helen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

The extent to which the impact of computer skills depends on how computers are used is investigated using British data from an establishment survey, cohort studies and the European E-Living survey. We examine the importance of activity and frequency of use in these various data sources. We find...

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The effect of information and communication technologies on urban structure

Ioannides, Yannis M.; Overman, Henry G.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

model which suggests that improvements in ICT will increase the dispersion of economic activity across cities making city …

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Globalisation, ICT and the nitty gritty of plant level datasets

Martin, Ralf - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

other structural changes over the same period such as increased globalisation and usage of ICT. I argue that the increase …. Surprisingly however, the positive correlation between ICT and net entry share – a main result of earlier studies – becomes more …

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Productivity and ICT: a review of the evidence

Draca, Mirko; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

productivity. The “Solow Paradox” of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it ever did. Both growth … estimates suggest a much larger impact of ICT on productivity than would be expected from the standard neoclassical model that …

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Productivity growth and employment: theory and panel estimates

Pissarides, Christopher; Vallanti, Giovanna - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Theoretical predictions of the effect of TFP growth on employment are ambiguous, and depend on the extent to which new technology is embodied in new jobs. We estimate a model for employment, wages and investment with an annual panel for the United States, Japan and Europe and find that TFP...

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