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 …

technological change: The diffusion of mechanized cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution in France. We document new … adopted - take time to be reflected in aggregate productivity statistics. Before mechanization, cotton spinning was performed … plant productivity distribution of new technology adopters in mechanized cotton spinning. We find that this distribution was …

We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the … productivity, research, and patenting, we simulate the growth of the five countries, given initial productivity levels in 1950 and … the magnitude of the slowdown in German, French, and Japanese productivity growth and the relative constancy of U.K. and U …

the famous Encyclopédie in mid-18th century France. We show that subscriber density is a strong predictor of city growth … firm survey from the 1840s, we shed light on the mechanism: upper-tail knowledge raised productivity in innovative …

employment of R&D workers, extending to ICT and other techies. In non-manufacturing firms, the impact of techies on productivity …We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both …

different changes in the structure of jobs in two departments of a large bank overseen by one group of managers. In the …

) augment a specific labor type--e.g., increase the productivity of labor in tasks it is already performing; (2) augment capital … productivity, and their full impact depends on the pattern of substitution between different factors which arises endogenously in …

relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. We match plant level practices with plant … level productivity and wage outcomes and estimate production functions and wage equation using both cross sectional and … productivity of establishments. We find that firms that re-engineer their workplaces to incorporate more high performance practices …