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The Diffusion of Technological Progress in ICT
Elstner, Steffen; Grimme, Christian; Kecht, Valentin; … - 2021
productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …
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Techies and Firm Level Productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023
We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …
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Trade in Information Technologies and Changes in the Demand for Occupations
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2021
I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in trade in IT and has become one of the major...
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ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation : Evidence from BITNET
Wernsdorf, Kathrin; Nagler, Markus; Watzinger, Martin - 2021
Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by exploiting the staggered adoption of BITNET across U.S. universities in the 1980s. BITNET, an early version of the Internet, enabled e-mail-based knowledge exchange and collaboration...
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Effect of Information and Communication Technologies on Urban Structure
Ioannides, Yannis M.; Overman, Henry G.; … - 2021
Two innovations in the last century have changed dramatically the cost of communicating and transmitting information: The first is the widespread adoption of telephony; the second is the internet. We study the implications of these changes in ICT for urban structure. We find robust evidence that...
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On the Elasticity of Substitution between Labor and ICT and IP Capital and Traditional Capital
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2022
I estimate CES aggregate production functions for the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, and Spain using data from the EU KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies (ICT), intellectual property (IP) capital, and traditional capital. I assume...
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Railways and the Productivity Gap in Italy: Persistence and Divergence after Unification
Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015
productivity, but this effect was stronger in the areas in which railways were already built. Moreover, railways helped industrial …
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Labor Market Policies and European Crises
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013
This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …
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Productivity as if Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China
Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - 2013
results quantify the role of regional factor markets in firm productivity and location. Considering modern China as a large …
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Productivity Response to a Contract Change
Jayaraman, Rajshri; Ray, Debraj; de Véricourt, Francis - 2014
This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …
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