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Unemployment invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and …
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What happened to the knowledge economy? ICT, intangible investment and Britain's productivity record revisited
Marrano, Mauro Giorgio; Haskel, Jonathan; Wallis, Gavin - 2007
appears unaffected: investment rates are flat, and productivity has slowed down. We investigate whether measurement issues … labour shares, growth in labour and total factor productivity, and capital deepening. We find (a) MGVA was understated by … productivity and capital deepening has been understated and growth in total factor productivity overstated (e) total factor …
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Structural development accounting
Gancia, Gino; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011
We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
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Emerging through Technological Capability: An Overview of India's Technological Trajectory
Ray, Amit Shovon - 2008
economy, there has been a tragic neglect of low end human capital investment for productivity gains in mass manufacturing …
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Output collapses and productivity destruction
Blyde, Juan S.; Daude, Christian; Fernández-Arias, Eduardo - 2009
below trend - and total factor productivity (TFP), using a panel of 71 developed and developing countries during the period …
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Notes on organization and change in the Caribbean : introductory readings in organizational theory and behaviour
Nunes, Frederick E.; Draper, Gordon - 1977 - 3. repr
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Information and communications technologies, coordination and control, and the distribution of income
Guy, Frederick; Skott, Peter - 2007
We consider the links between information and communications technologies (ICTs) and the distribution of income, as mediated by problems of coordination and control within organizations. In the large corporations of the mid-twentieth century, a highly developed division of labor was coordinated...
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Power, productivity and profits
Guy, Frederick; Skott, Peter - 2007
New information and communication technologies, we argue, have been 'power-biased': in many industries they have allowed firms to monitor workers more closely, thus reducing the power of these workers. An efficiency wage model shows that 'power-biased technical change' in this sense may generate...
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Information technology, organisational change and productiivity growth: Evidence from UK firms
Crespi, Gustavo; Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan - 2006
We examine the relationships between productivity growth, IT investment and organisational change (∆O) using UK firm … effect on productivity growth, (c) non-IT investment and ∆O do not interact in their effect on productivity growth. Some new …
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ICTs and rural development in India
Singh, Nirvikar - 2006
This monograph compares the methodologies and progress of the different existing models of information and communication technology (ICT) use for broad-based development and economic growth in India. It will examine the role of complementary reforms in government administration and policies. The...
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