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This study advances the prior literature concerning the impact of information technology on productivity in academe in …
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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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productivity or whether private and public returns to health IT diverge thereby justifying government intervention. We estimate the … change in hospital multi-factor productivity. Not-for-profits invested more heavily and differently in IT than for …
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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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Due to improving information technology, the growing complexity of research problems, and policies designed to foster interdisciplinary research, the practice of science in the United States has undergone significant structural change. Using a sample of 110 top U.S. universities observed during...
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, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three …
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their claim that part of the post-1995 productivity growth revival reflected the normal cyclical correlation between … productivity and output growth. In contrast data through mid-2003 reveal only a negligible cyclical effect for 1995-99 but rather a … temporary bubble in 2002-03. (2) Why did productivity growth accelerate after 2000 when the ICT investment boom was collapsing …
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The present study is the third in a series of three papers devoted to issues in the measurement of productivity and … productivity growth. The major findings are as follows. First, this study shows that the new data set used here, which develops … useful supplement to existing data sets. Second, there has clearly been a rebound in labor-productivity growth in recent …
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&D indicators and measures of labor and total factor productivity, average wage and skill composition, on four panel data samples of … positive correlations with productivity, average wage and the share of administrative managers, as well as negative ones with …
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This paper analyzes the productivity of technology and job design in emergency response systems, or 911 systems … during 1994-1996, when almost half of the 67 counties experienced a change in technology. We measure productivity using an …
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