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 …

) 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 …

This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation …, 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 …

of the late 1990s does not doom productivity growth to slip back to the dismal pre-1995 era. Instead, we argue that … conventional analyses have exaggerated the contribution of ICT investment to the post-1995 productivity performance. Productivity … ICT production to economy-wide productivity growth, the paper cites four reasons to suspect that standard analyses have …

technology (IT) and productivity by investigating several plant-level mechanisms through which IT could promote productivity … manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work … estimation of longitudinal models eliminate many sources of unmeasured heterogeneity that could confound productivity comparisons …

through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in … relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT capital as well as to upstream regulations, and two factor demand functions … finding that the impact of upstream regulations on total factor productivity can be sizeable, and they provide evidence that a …

Productivity reflects not only how efficiently inputs are transformed into outputs, but also how well information is …

endogenous firm entry, firm-level productivity, and sectoral employment shares. We find that observed measures of misallocation …

paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of … labor productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the …

This study advances the prior literature concerning the impact of information technology on productivity in academe in …