technology (IT) and productivity by investigating several plant-level mechanisms through which IT could promote productivity … estimation of longitudinal models eliminate many sources of unmeasured heterogeneity that could confound productivity comparisons …

Productivity reflects not only how efficiently inputs are transformed into outputs, but also how well information is …

The present study is the third in a series of three papers devoted to issues in the measurement of productivity and … productivity growth. The major findings are as follows. First, this study shows that the new data set used here, which develops … useful supplement to existing data sets. Second, there has clearly been a rebound in labor-productivity growth in recent …

&D indicators and measures of labor and total factor productivity, average wage and skill composition, on four panel data samples of … positive correlations with productivity, average wage and the share of administrative managers, as well as negative ones with …

This paper analyzes the productivity of technology and job design in emergency response systems, or 911 systems … during 1994-1996, when almost half of the 67 counties experienced a change in technology. We measure productivity using an …

During the four years 1995-99 U. S. productivity growth experienced a strong revival and achieved growth rates … transport, motion pictures, radio, indoor plumbing, and made the golden age of productivity growth possible. This paper raises … doubts about the validity of this comparison with the Great Inventions of the past. It dissects the recent productivity …

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 …

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 …