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Technology Convergence and Digital Divides. A Country-Level Evidence for the Period 2000-2010
Lechman, Ewa - 2015
The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000-2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147305
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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107833
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Information technology, organizational change and firm productivity: A panel study of complementarity effects and clustering patterns in Manufacturing and Services
Zand, Fardad; Van Beers, Cees; Van Leeuwen, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
complementarities between IT capital and OC initiatives of the firm. It analyzes the productivity impact of different clusters of IT and …-level observations in the Netherlands for the period 1994-2006. The results reveal that the productivity effect of IT significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109040
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Las cajas de ahorro y el cambio tecnológico antes de Internet, 1945-1995
Maixe-Altes, J. Carles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Technical advances in retail banking have had profound repercussions for the competitiveness of individual firms and for the sector as a whole. This paper looks at the role played by new technological resources within the context of organizational change and the products and services offered by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259699
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The Goldilocks economy of the United States in comparison with Europe: an analysis with EUROMON
Peeters, H.M.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
The economic development in the United States has been very successful over the past decade, with high economic growth being accompanied by relatively low inflation. This article explores this development, comparing the economy of the United States with that of the EMU. In addition, it considers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008871148
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The Nature of Innovation Channels at the Micro-Level : Evidence from Russian Manufacturing Firms
Simachev, Yuri; Kuzyk, Mikhail; Feygina, Vera - 2013
The main purpose of the paper is to analyze different channels for innovations. We consider the influence of various incentives for innovation in Russian companies taking into account the organization of industries — vertical or horizontal orientation, peculiarities of corporate demography,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153492
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Redefining the Economical Power of Nations
Kiss, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
– Inflation) x GDP = K_Index_Infl. Productivity Index: K_Index / Labor Force = K_PROD Inflation indexed Productivity Index: K …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259539
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Закон Оукена, парадокс занятости и влияние безработицы на экономику СССР и России.
BLINOV, Sergey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
For effective economic growth, intentional “creation” of unemployment is required to be followed up by its «elimination». From Okun’s law one can infer an interesting corollary: growing unemployment without reducing GDP increases the economy’s potential. This corollary can be proved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259561
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Time Is Money. Theory of Value Depreciation.
BLINOV, Sergey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The article describes “the theory of value depreciation” developed by the author. In accordance with this theory, economic growth takes place using two inter-connected phenomena: (a) reduction in time necessary to produce “the set of goods currently consumed” (first form of value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260254
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Productivity-wage-growth nexus: an empirical study of Singapore
Freddy, Liew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper investigates the empirical relationship between labor productivity, real wages and real GDP in Singapore … from 1997 to 2011. The paper begins with a review of productivity, wage and growth situations in Singapore in the past … relation between labor productivity and real GDP but that wages seem to be caused by other underlying factors. However, real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359942