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wages and productivity across establishments. The second is that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across … productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades, and (4) a substantial fraction of the rising … dispersion in wages and productivity is accounted for by increasing wage and productivity differentials across high and low …
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Since the mid-1980s many authors have investigated the influence of information technology (IT) on productivity. Until … recently there has been no clear evidence that productivity increases as a result of IT spending. This productivity paradox is … results imply that in order to measure the impact of IT on productivity it is crucial to account for how the firm …
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the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and its impact on clinical outcomes, productivity and labor. We find … HICT on productivity is needed to guide further adoption. There is little econometric work directly investigating the … productivity stressing the importance of complementary factors (e.g. management and skills) in determining HICT impacts …
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, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three …
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We examine the role of the ICT revolution in driving productivity growth behavior for the United States and an …. Using industry-level data from EU KLEMS, we find that most of the 1995-2005 U.S. productivity growth revival was driven by … rather than providing a new permanent era of faster productivity growth. This joint transatlantic post-2005 slowdown is …
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We study the effect of information on technology adoption and productivity in agriculture. Our empirical strategy … agricultural productivity. Our estimates indicate that information frictions can explain around 25 percent of the agricultural … productivity gap between the most productive and the least productive areas in our sample …
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Due to improving information technology, the growing complexity of research problems, and policies designed to foster interdisciplinary research, the practice of science in the United States has undergone significant structural change. Using a sample of 110 top U.S. universities observed during...
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This study advances the prior literature concerning the impact of information technology on productivity in academe in …
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This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...
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contribution of total factor productivity growth from the IT sector in Japan also increased, while the contributions of labor input … and productivity growth from the Non-IT sector lagged far behind the United States. Our projection of potential economic … labor input. Our projections of labor productivity growth in the two economies are much more similar …
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