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improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … to the productivity frontier …
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) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for … innovation, and ICT investment being more important for productivity. For the median firm, rates of return to both investments …
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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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The paper examines the determinants of scientific productivity (number of articles and journals' impact factor) for a … productivity are addressed by specifying a generalized Tobit model, in which a selection probit equation accounts for the … individual scientist's probability of promotion to her present rank, and a productivity regression estimates the effects of age …
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This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … productivity (CDM model). Our econometric results suggest that overall the systems driving innovation and productivity are … productivity that is associated with more or less innovative activities …
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manufacturing industries. The estimated elasticities of productivity with respect to Ramp;D capital are significant and plausible …
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success from firm surveys along with the usual Ramp;D expenditures and productivity measures. We then apply the model to data … both process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity …
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The paper examines the size and productivity of total intangible capital relative to total tangible capital for a large …
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This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted … all countries could expect sizeable gains in multifactor productivity from deregulation reforms …
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This paper compares and analyzes the growth of productivity in the manufacturing industries and firms in France and the … U.S. based on newly assembled comparable data sets in both countries. Three explanations of the recent productivity … of R&D investment, and found not to bear on the differences in productivity growth between and within the two countries …
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