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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas - 2011

effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …

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Hi-tech Innovation and Productivity Growth : Does Supply Create Its Own Demand?

Gordon, Robert J. - 2003

This paper argues that the late 1990s boom in ICT investment was unsustainable for both macro and micro reasons; we are unlikely again to witness an interval in which computer hardware investment grows at an annual rate greater than 30 percent for five straight years. Analysts who base their...

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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry

Aghion, Philippe - 2012

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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Transatlantic Technologies : The Role of ICT in the Evolution of U.S. and European Productivity Growth

Gordon, Robert J. - 2020

consistent with the broader view that ongoing innovation has been less potent in boosting productivity growth compared to earlier …

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Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries over 25 years

Michaels, Guy - 2010

OECD labor markets have become more "polarized" with employment in the middle of the skill distribution falling relative to the top and (in recent years) also the bottom of the skill distribution. We test the hypothesis of Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003) that this is partly due to information...

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The distinct effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on firm organization

Bloom, Nicholas - 2009

Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the "information" and "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that these have very different effects on the empowerment of employees, and by extension on wage inequality. If...

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Why was Europe Left at the Station When America's Productivity Locomotive Departed?

Gordon, Robert J. - 2004

the favorable environment for innovation in the United States compared to Europe. Elements include an openly competitive …

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