David [In: Technology and Productivity: The Challenge for Economic Policy (1991) 315–347] and emphasize their similarities …. Our main findings are: 1. Productivity growth in the two GPT eras tended to be lower than it was in other periods, with … productivity slowdowns taking place at the start of the two eras and the IT era slowdown stronger than that seen during …

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 …

. Digital technologies offer opportunities to raise firms’ productivity and the population’s well-being. However, wide … productivity gaps between large firms and SMEs and between manufacturing and services weigh on economy-wide productivity, which is …

the US productivity revival and in the evolving US-EU productivity gap. In Israel, the ICT sector grew very rapidly during … productivity growth remained sluggish, with traditional sectors both in manufacturing and services seemingly unable to benefit from …

Stronger productivity growth in the US than the EU over the late 1990s is widely attributed to faster, more widespread …, and we show evidence from microdata that is consistent with this idea. -- ICT ; outsourcing ; productivity …

. To analyze the impact of “free” content on measured private business total factor productivity (TFP) growth, we account …

technologies (ICT) for developments in productivity growth in the euro area. On the basis of the available data, there is evidence … overall productivity growth. This implies that there is no reason to believe that potential output growth in the euro area has …

accumulation, a surge in hours worked, and faster growth of total factor productivity. The acceleration of productivity growth …