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values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …
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establishments. Within the framework of a modified Cobb-Douglas production function, layoffs do not influence subsequent productivity …
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productivity observed in a sample of ten unionized plants. It is argued that this relationship reflects the productivity …
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This study documents a significant inverse relationship between grievance rates and productivity. It is argued in the …
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empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity …
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summarized to a first order by the current and expected future values of the Solow productivity residual in level and by the …
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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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technology (IT) and productivity by investigating several plant-level mechanisms through which IT could promote productivity … estimation of longitudinal models eliminate many sources of unmeasured heterogeneity that could confound productivity comparisons …
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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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Measured productivity growth increased substantially during the second half of the 1990s. This paper examines whether … productivity growth does appear to arise from an increase in technological change. Cyclical utilization raised measured … productivity growth relative to technology growth in the first part of the expansion, but lowered it subsequently. Factor …
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