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I speculate that technological spillover effects may have become more important over time as IT penetrated the U.S. economy. The rationale is that IT may speed up the process of knowledge transfer and make these knowledge spillovers more effective. Using US input-output tables for years 1958,...
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engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers …&D); (2) productivity is higher in manufacturing establishments with higher SEP, and increases with increases in SEP; (3 … important pathway for increasing productivity and earnings, separate and distinct from the work of scientists and engineers who …
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This paper examines performance in a tournament setting with different levels of inequality in rewards and different provision of information about individual's skill at the task prior to the tournament. We find that that total tournament output depends on inequality according to an inverse U...
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, employee share ownership, and stock options--and their link to productivity. It shows that shared capitalism has grown in the … productivity, but its impact is largest when firms combine it with other forms of shared capitalist pay and modes of organization …
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This paper examines the impact of the operations of foreign-owned multinational firms on the productivity growth of …-owned firms affects the productivity of local firms in that sector and whether there is any evidence of convergence between that … industry's productivity level and that of the United States. The main results can be summarized as follows: First, productivity …
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France. During the 1980s and 1990s Britain halted the relative declines in GDP per capita and labour productivity that had …
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This paper summarized some new evidence concerning the impact of collective bargaining on productivity for workers of a … productive than those that are nonunion. This positive union productivity effect is not an immutable constant. For example,in the … were significantly more productive in 1965.The routes by which unions affect productivity have not yet been carefully …
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The age structure of capital plays an important role in the measurement of productivity. It has been argued that the … productivity measurement. A proposition proves that Nelson's (1964) formula is wrong. Our final proposition shows that inclusion of … the vintage effect prompts an upward correction of measured productivity growth in times of an aging stock of capital …
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is positively related to industry productivity growth. The effects are very modest -- adding at most 0.07 percentage … points to annual labor productivity growth …
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