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labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … well. By implication, policies that stimulate investment and R&D and policies that affect the size of the labor force may … productivity. …
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investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor …This empirical study examines changes in industrial productivity in Korea between 1980 and 2009, focusing on how … productivity growth in 30 industrial sectors. Describing industry-specific productivity levels is important for policymakers when …
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rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
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In this note we compare the laissez-faire steady-state solution in the Howitt and Aghion (1998) model to the social optimum. The analysis offers several new insights in comparison to the welfare analysis in Aghion and Howitt (1992). We find various new distortions between private and optimal...
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The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...
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a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU …This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits …-calculated factor share. These findings suggest investments in knowledge-based capital, i.e., intangible capital, produce productivity …
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methodology that combines institutions and human agency into an interdependent system, applying the configuration theory. We argue …
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dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …
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productivity (TFP) growth in China. Our primary goal is to test Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis by examining whether technical … public works and huge investment in industrial sectors. …
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … productivity, to a "Marxian" zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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