of these technologies and the skills of LDC workers, and lead to low productivity in the LDCs. Even when all countries … productivity and output per worker. We provide evidence in favour of the cross-industry productivity patterns predicted by our …

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 …

framework for the analysis of growth driven by both entry of new firms and productivity improvements by continuing firms. The …

We analyse an economy where managers engage both in the adoption of technologies from the world frontier and in … investments, but little selection. Closer to the world technology frontier, there is a switch to an innovation-based strategy with …. Societies that cannot switch out of the investment-based strategy, however, fail to converge to the world technology frontier …

We construct a model where the equilibrium organization of firms changes as an economy approaches the world technology …