The relationship between technology, productivity and employment is a complex one. Increased productivity can lead not … looks at the effects on productivity of different forms of investment--in physical capital, in Research & Development, and … can develop new markets. On the other hand, if demand and hence output does not expand in line with productivity, then an …

relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) we …We assess long-run patterns of global agricultural productivity growth between 1970 and 2005 and examine the … employ a Solow-type growth accounting method to decompose output growth into input and TFP growth. For technology capital we …

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …

, Japan loses ground in the public?s perception with German companies increasingly moving towards China. Moreover, Germany … small and medium-sized companies in Japan?s medical technology sector sheds light on the topic from an empirical angle. The … ger?t Japan im Zuge der Hinwendung deutscher Firmen nach China in der Wahrnehmung der ?ffentlichkeit zunehmend in den …

to spread (or diffuse) the innovations into wider use. Hence, technology is important for the investment decisions of all … combined investment decisions of those firms doing the inventing, and those firms that adopt those inventions, and thereby help … success rate of past technological investments, technology complexity, and the technology development period. We use the …

relationship between technology intensity and vertical integration from a simple incomplete contracts model. Then, we investigate … these predictions using plant-level data for the UK manufacturing sector. Most importantly, and consistent with theory, we … find that the technology intensities of downstream (producer) and upstream (supplier) industries have opposite effects on …

Over the coming century, computer technology is likely to become capable of reproducing many of the skills now …