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Management as a Technology?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply … reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We … find large cross-country differences in the adoption of management practices, with the US having the highest size …
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Information, Decisions, and Productivity : On-Board Computers and Capacity Utilization in Trucking
Hubbard, Thomas N. - 2001
Productivity reflects not only how efficiently inputs are transformed into outputs, but also how well information is brought to bear on resource allocation decisions. This paper examines this empirically by looking at how on-board computer (OBC) adoption has affected capacity utilization in the...
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The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change : An Empirical Exploration
Autor, David H. - 2001
We apply an understanding of what computers do -- the execution of procedural or rules-based logic -- to study how computer technology alters job skill demands. We contend that computer capital (1) substitutes for a limited and well-defined set of human activities, those involving routine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470387
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Do We Have A New E-Conomy?
Baily, Martin N. - 2001
Used properly, the term 'new e-conomy' is warranted. Since 1995, there has been a wave of innovation associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470481
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Population Growth, Technological Adoption and Economic Outcomes : A Theory of Cross-Country Differences for the Information Era
Beaudry, Paul - 2001
The object of this paper is to show how population growth, through its interaction with recent technological and organizational developments, can account for many of the cross-country differences in economic outcome observed among industrialized countries over the last 20 years. In particular,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470577
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Productivity Growth and the New Economy
Nordhaus, William D. - 2001
sector, and 2.1 percentage points for well-measured output. Third, productivity growth in the new economy sectors has made a … significant contribution to economy-wide productivity growth. For the business sector, of the 1.82 percentage point increase in … labor-productivity growth in the last three years, 0.65 percentage point was due to the new-economy sectors. Finally, for …
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Information Technology and Research and Development Impacts on Productivity and Skills : Looking for Correlations on French Firm Level Data
Mairesse, Jacques - 2001
The main objective of the study is descriptive. We set out to explore the (cor)relations between five IT and R&D indicators and measures of labor and total factor productivity, average wage and skill composition, on four panel data samples of French manufacturing and services firms over the two...
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Computers, Work Organization, and Wage Outcomes
Cappelli, Peter - 2000
We examine two factors frequently thought to be changing the U.S. workplace, high performance work practices and computer use, and their relationships with pay using a national probability sample of U.S. establishments. The analysis controls for both organizational and individual characteristics...
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Upstairs, Downstairs : Computer-Skill Complementarity and Computer-Labor Substitution on Two Floors of a Large Bank
Autor, David H. - 2000
We describe how a single technological innovation, the introduction of image processing of checks, led to distinctly different changes in the structure of jobs in two departments of a large bank overseen by one group of managers. In the downstairs deposit processing department, image processing...
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The Impact of Information Technology on Emergency Health Care Outcomes
Athey, Susan - 2000
This paper analyzes the productivity of technology and job design in emergency response systems, or 911 systems.' During the 1990s, many 911 systems adopted Enhanced 911' (E911), where information technology is used to link automatic caller identification to a database of address and location...
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