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abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …-US multinationals in the UK, and this is primarily due to the higher productivity of their IT. Furthermore, establishments that are … taken over by US multinationals increase the productivity of their IT, whereas observationally identical establishments …
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positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …
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This paper examines the impact of mass media and information and commu- nications technologies (ICT) as knowledge-based infrastructures on economic development. The results suggest that both mass media and ICT penetra- tion are negatively associated with corruption. This result holds across both...
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At present the USA is - in per capita terms - the top greenhouse gas polluter among the world’s major economies. This is mirrored by the high energy intensity of all sectors of the US economy including manufacturing industries. A potential explanation for the higher energy intensity is lower...
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At present the USA is - in per capita terms - the top greenhouse gas polluter among the world’s major economies. This is mirrored by the high energy intensity of all sectors of the US economy including manufacturing industries. A potential explanation for the higher energy intensity are lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746537
Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income - the growing weightless economy - influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ''distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...
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Gutenberg's printing press was the great revolution in Renaissance information technology. This paper presents new evidence on media markets, knowledge transmission, and city growth across Europe 1450-1600. The paper construct- s comprehensive firm-level panel data on the number and subjects of...
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We examine how information technology (IT) contributes to organizational change, labor demand, and improved productivity in the public sector using a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. While IT adoption is associated with increased administrative and organizational...
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We examine the relationships between productivity growth, IT investment and organisational change (∆O) using UK firm … effect on productivity growth, (c) non-IT investment and ∆O do not interact in their effect on productivity growth. Some new … not doing ∆O and/or are in the early stages of IT investment compare well with the macro numbers documenting a UK measured …
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This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from …
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