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We examine the relationship between human capital and economic activity in U.S. metropolitan areas, extending the literature in two ways. First, we utilize new data on metropolitan area GDP to measure economic activity. Results show that a one-percentage-point increase in the proportion of...
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The sharp increase in equity prices over the 1990s was widely attributed to permanently higher productivity growth …, which shows that under plausible assumptions, productivity advances can only have temporary effects on the fundamentals of … equity prices. Using historical data on productivity of R&D capital, patent capital and fixed capital for 11 OECD countries …
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estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms. …
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recent empirical work on the impact of organizational capital on firm productivity and workers? wages. We then discuss in …
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The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use … apparent ‘productivity paradox’. The most obvious one is the fact that not many countries, other than the US, have yet invested …
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Die US-Volkswirtschaft ist seit einigen Jahren durch ein inflationsfreies Wachstum bei gleichzeitig niedriger Arbeitslosigkeit gekennzeichnet - eine Konstellation, die als New Economy bezeichnet wird. Handelt es sich dabei um eine grundlegende Veränderung der bisher vorherrschenden...
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sector and industry, the paper demonstrates that about half the increase in labor and capital productivity in the new economy … periods, half of the growth in real output per worker (Q/N) is attributable to increases in capital productivity. Increase in …
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US labor productivity in ICT-skill intensive industries experienced tremendousincreases in post-1995 trend growth … thesource of industry productivity growth in German ICT-skill intensive sectors, there is noempirical evidence on the influence … Transport, were found to haveexperienced strong productivity growth via ICT-skill complementarities. These findingsshed light on …
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relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. Using both cross-sectional and longitudinal … data, we find evidence that high-performance workplace practices are associated with both higher productivity and higher … and the productivity of establishments. We find that firms re-engineer their workplaces and incorporate` more high …
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