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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014
-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT …-intensive industries depending on the exact measures, though not since the late 1990s. Most challenging to this paradigm, and our … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333318
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Employment protection, technology choice, and worker allocation
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Gautier, Pieter A.; de Wind, Joris - 2010
Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277257
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Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Gautier, Pieter A.; de Wind, Joris - 2010
Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326074