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Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Labor : Firm-Level Evidence
Bresnahan, Timothy F. - 1999
Recently, the relative demand for skilled labor has increased dramatically. We investigate one of the causes, skill-biased technical change. Advances in information technology (IT) are among the most powerful forces bearing on the economy. Employers who use IT often make complementary...
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An Economic Model of Consensus on Distributed Ledgers
Hałaburda, Hanna; He, Zhiguo; Li, Jiasun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In recent years, the designs of many new blockchain applications have been inspired by the Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) problem. While traditional BFT protocols assume that most system nodes are honest (in that they follow the protocol), we recognize that blockchains are deployed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696424
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Securing Their Future? Entry And Survival In The Information Security Industry
Arora, Ashish - 2007
In this paper we study how the existence of a functioning market for technology differentially conditions the entry strategy and survival of different types of entrants, and the role of scale, marketing ability and technical assets. Markets for technology facilitate entry of firms that lack...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465005
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Organizing Offshoring : Middle Managers and Communication Costs
Antràs, Pol - 2006
particularly attractive locations to offshore? In this paper we address these questions with a theory of international production … hierarchies in which organizations arise endogenously to make efficient use of agents' knowledge. Our theory highlights the role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466472
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Organization and Inequality in a Knowledge Economy
Garicano, Luis - 2005
We present a theory of the organization of work in an economy where knowledge is an essential input in production: a … may produce on their own or in organizations. Our theory generates an assignment of workers to positions, a wage structure … referral markets. We use our theory to study the impact of information and communication technology, and contrast its …
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General Purpose Technologies
Jovanovic, Boyan - 2005
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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Monetary Policy in the Information Economy
Woodford, Michael - 2001
This paper considers two challenges that improvements in private-sector information-processing capabilities may pose for the effectiveness of monetary policy. It first considers the consequences of improved information about central-bank actions, and argues that the management of expectations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470041
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Computers, Work Organization, and Wage Outcomes
Cappelli, Peter - 2000
We examine two factors frequently thought to be changing the U.S. workplace, high performance work practices and computer use, and their relationships with pay using a national probability sample of U.S. establishments. The analysis controls for both organizational and individual characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470751
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The IT Revolution and the Stock Market
Greenwood, Jeremy - 1999
A new technology or product is often developed by the single entrepreneur. Whether he reaches the public offering stage or is acquired by a listed firm it takes time for the innovator to add value to the stock market. Indeed first, reduce the market's value because some firms -- usually large or...
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Why Are Process Monitoring Technologies Valuable? The Use of On-Board Information Technology in the Trucking Industry
Hubbard, Thomas N. - 1998
theory and relates them to how supply chains are organized …
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