relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) we … employ a Solow-type growth accounting method to decompose output growth into input and TFP growth. For technology capital we … countries. We then correlate technology capital levels with long-term growth rates in agricultural TFP. Our findings show that …

, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search …

and analyzing statistical data on productivity trends and technological change in the energy-intensive manufacturing … also examine the impact of alternative model specifications on estimates of productivity growth and technological change … for each of the three sectors, and estimate the contribution of various capital inputs--imported vs. indigenous, rigid vs …

The geopressured zone, assuming the presence of natural gas and high water productivity, may be used to produce … design and costing of a double-flash 25-megawatt plant using water at 325 F gave a capital cost of $678/kwh, a fuel cost of ….5-megawatt test facility will require a total capital cost of $6,661,000. Expansion of this site to a four-well, 10-megawatt …

This articlefocuses on the relative levels of farm sector productivity forthe United States and nine European countries … for the period1973 to 1993. At the beginning of the period, Belgium had thehighest level of productivity relative to the … United States at1.689. Ireland had the lowest relative productivity at 0.759.By 1993, the range of levels of productivity had …

Over the coming century, computer technology is likely to become capable of reproducing many of the skills now … performed by human labor. This paper describes three models of the aggregate economic changes that occur when capital becomes … decades. The models produce patterns of change in the labor share and capital-output ratio that are consistent with broad …

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 …

participants to do business through information and communication technology (ICT) tools and systems is dependent on the innovation … of the user, not only the technology itself – i.e. the successful implementation of ICT requires careful consideration to …