This paper argues that unemployment insurance increases labor productivity by encouraging workers to seek higher … productivity jobs, and by encouraging firms to create those jobs. We use a quantitative general equilibrium model to investigate …

these tasks are designed to be used by skilled workers, productivity in the LDCs will be low. Even when all countries have … factor productivity and output per worker. Our theory also suggests that productivity differences should be highest in medium … effect on the direction of technical change and on productivity differences …

labor productivity and lower labor shares. In particular, the use of these technologies is associated with a 11.4% higher … labor productivity, which accounts for 20-30% of the difference in labor productivity between large firms and the median …

is inefficient and reduces (and could even negate) the productivity gains from automation. Using data for the US from … contribution. We also estimate that inefficient rent dissipation offset 60-90% of the productivity gains from automation since 1980 …

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 …