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impact of IT not so much "new" as larger than before? In this article, Barry Bosworth and Jack Triplett of the Brooking … message is that the although IT is the driving force behind the recent acceleration of labour productivity growth, its impact … little reason to believe productivity gains arising from IT will end in the near future. …
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productivity performance in the 1990s and the contribution to labour productivity growth was at least as strong as it was in the US …
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The contribution of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector to growth in Asian economies is clearly … paper employs an extension of the standard growth accounting framework, using estimates of stock of ICT capital (hardware …, software, and telecommunications equipment), to estimate the direct contributions to growth. The contribution of ICT to growth …
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The information technology (IT) revolution has arrived, but how much will it change the world? It has been established … that IT is contributing to labor productivity growth through both increases in the levels of IT capital per worker and … total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the production of IT equipment. The main outstanding issue is whether IT is …
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It is well-acknowledged that many African economies perform well below their potential, yet there is little knowledge …
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In order to stay competitive in the global market, a common strategy of industrial enterprises is focusing on the company's core competences and reducing the depth of (own) added value. As a consequence, suppliers have a chance to differentiate themselves from competitors and gain competitive...
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This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment-specific technical change, associated with...
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Following up on a previous paper by the same author on the contribution of ICT capital to growth and labor productivity …, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia. The paper shows that the contribution of investment in IT hardware, software and … transition economies – through the use of ICT - are benefiting from the technological leapfrogging to increase the growth rates …
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There is large evidence on a positive impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth and … of ICT to growth and productivity in post-communist, transition economies. Data availability, consistency, and … framework, at estimating the contribution of investment in ICT to output growth and labor productivity in Poland, the largest …
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