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Outsourcing and Technological Change
Bartel, Ann P.; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2021
In this paper we argue that an important source of the recent increase in outsourcing is the computer and information … technological change increases outsourcing because it allows firms to use services based on leading edge technologies without … outsourcing costs of IT-based services generating a positive correlation between the IT level of the user and its outsourcing …
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Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption
Ryan, Stephen P - 2014
We estimate the demand for a videocalling technology in the presence of both network effects and heterogeneity. Using a unique dataset from a large multinational firm, we pose and estimate a fully dynamic model of technology adoption. We propose a novel identification strategy based on...
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Spillovers, Linkages, and Productivity Growth in the Us Economy, 1958 to 2007
Wolff, Edward N. - 2014
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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Information and Communications Technology in Chronic Disease Care : Why is Adoption so Slow and is Slower Better?
Christensen, Michael C. - 2010
Unlike the widespread adoption of information and communications technology (ICT) in much of the economy, adoption of ICT in clinical care is limited. We examine how a number of not previously emphasized features of the health care and ICT markets interact and exacerbate each other to create...
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Adoption of New Information and Communications Technologies in the Workplace Today
Bresnahan, Timothy - 2016
The invention of new applications based on information and communications technologies (ICTs) has had two economic effects up to now. These applications have transformed production, creating value for applications-inventing companies and their customers and increasing economic growth through...
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Management as a Technology?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the adoption...
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Upstairs, Downstairs : Computer-Skill Complementarity and Computer-Labor Substitution on Two Floors of a Large Bank
Autor, David H.; Levy, Frank S.; Murnane, Richard J. - 2021
We describe how a single technological innovation, the introduction of image processing of checks, led to distinctly different changes in the structure of jobs in two departments of a large bank overseen by one group of managers. In the downstairs deposit processing department, image processing...
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Skill Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality : Some Problems and Puzzles
Card, David; DiNardo, John E. - 2021
The rise in wage inequality in the U.S. labor market during the 1980s is usually attributed to skill-biased technical change (SBTC), associated with the development of personal computers and related information technologies. We review the evidence in favor of this hypothesis, focusing on the...
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General Purpose Technologies
Jovanovic, Boyan; Rousseau, Peter L. - 2021
Electricity and Information Technology (IT) are perhaps the two most important general purpose technologies (GPTs) to date. We analyze how the U.S. economy reacted to them. The Electricity and IT eras are similar, but also differ in several important ways. Electrification was more broadly...
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The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change : An Empirical Exploration
Autor, David H.; Levy, Frank S.; Murnane, Richard J. - 2021
We apply an understanding of what computers do -- the execution of procedural or rules-based logic -- to study how computer technology alters job skill demands. We contend that computer capital (1) substitutes for a limited and well-defined set of human activities, those involving routine...
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