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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 …
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The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be … especially the most recent generation of IT as indicated by the number of PCs used is the source of productivity growth whereas …
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. Our findings suggest that the productivity gains from investments in the three innovative activities are related to firm …
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In this paper we explore variables that may have an impact on multifactor productivity (MFP) in the long-run using the …
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This paper examines the link between information technology (IT) and the U.S. productivity revival in the late 1990s …. Industry-level data show a broad productivity resurgence that reflects both the production and the use of IT. The most IT …-intensive industries experienced significantly larger productivity gains than other industries and a wide variety of econometric tests show …
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productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … is evidenced in a greater dispersion in productivity and related key business choices. We also find that the mean impact … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. …
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The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro …, especially the United States, where such work sheds important light on particular aspects of productivity growth. The authors …
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The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the … between labour productivity and IT intensity is not affected by the proportion of older workers. …
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productivity was very limited in the 1990s. – ICT ; skilled workers ; skill-biased ; technological change ; productivity paradox …
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and productivity change; when expenditure on consumer durables is recorded as capital investment. The capitalization of … consumer durables impacts both the levels and growth rates of the capital stock, productivity and GDP. Our growth accounting … productivity growth in 1995-2004. ICT's impacts were larger, i.e., one-fifth of GVA growth and one-sixth of labour productivity …
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