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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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This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...
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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 …
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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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We examine the role of the ICT revolution in driving productivity growth behavior for the United States and an …. Using industry-level data from EU KLEMS, we find that most of the 1995-2005 U.S. productivity growth revival was driven by … rather than providing a new permanent era of faster productivity growth. This joint transatlantic post-2005 slowdown is …
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The object of this paper is to show how population growth, through its interaction with recent technological and organizational developments, can account for many of the cross-country differences in economic outcome observed among industrialized countries over the last 20 years. In particular,...
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We argue that unmeasured investments in intangible organizational capital associated with the role of information and communications technology (ICT) as a general purpose technology' can explain the divergent U.S. and U.K. TFP performance after 1995. GPT stories suggest that measured TFP should...
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During the four years 1995-99 U. S. productivity growth experienced a strong revival and achieved growth rates … transport, motion pictures, radio, indoor plumbing, and made the golden age of productivity growth possible. This paper raises … doubts about the validity of this comparison with the Great Inventions of the past. It dissects the recent productivity …
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After fifty years of catching up to the United States level of productivity, since 1995 Europe has been falling behind … growth shortfall caused the level of European productivity to fall back from 94 percent of the United States level to 85 … retailing formats that have created many of the productivity gains in the United States. For many decades, the United States and …
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economic growth is dominated by investments and productivity growth in information technology, both for individual industries … and the economy as a whole. We also show that the revival of total factor productivity growth accounts for the modest …
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