member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the marginal impact of ICT capital is higher when it is complemented with …

(ICT). But why have the same technologies not similarly increased Europe's labour productivity? This paper provides a … improvement in the ICT can yield significant increases in labour productivity if - and only if - the organization is drastically …

the US productivity revival and in the evolving US-EU productivity gap. In Israel, the ICT sector grew very rapidly during … the success of the ICT sector. The main goal of this paper is to shed light on these twin developments. We use newly … constructed data on industry-level ICT investments between 1990 and 2003 and estimate production functions for manufacturing …

We measure the impact of a drastic new technology for producing steel, the minimill, on the aggregate productivity of U …'s productivity is linked to this new technology, and operates through two distinct mechanisms. First, minimills displaced the older … technology, called vertically integrated production, and this reallocation of output was responsible for a third of the increase …

This paper examines the effects on technology transfer and spillovers deriving from ownership sharing of foreign …

-intensive technology because a lowering of variable costs requires additional use of skilled labour. This way, we establish a link between … trade, technology and relative returns to skilled and unskilled labour. Moreover, we show that as market integration …