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Uso de TIC y productividad en México: Un análisis subsectorial
Díaz Rodríguez, Héctor Eduardo; Sosa Castro, … - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 25 (2018), pp. 156-184
Since Information and Communication Technologies adoption has grown, research on link of ICT and Economic Growth link … has found that there is a significant impact of the use of ICT on growth; however, it generally ignores the determinants … determinants of differentiated use of ICT at subsector level in Mexico. using factor analysis, cluster analysis and econometrics …
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Measuring Capital Services by Energy Use: An Empirical Comparative Study
Bitzer, Jürgen; Gören, Erkan - 2013
From an engineering perspective, a capital good's service is energy conversion - e.g., the physical 'work' done by a machine - and can thus be measured directly by the energy consumed in production. We show important empirical advantages of our concept over traditional measures. The empirical...
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Growth in euro area labour quality
Schwerdt, Guido; Turunen, Jarkko - 2006
Composition of the euro area workforce evolves over time and in response to changing labour market conditions. We construct an estimate of growth in euro area labour quality over the period 1983-2004 and show that labour quality has grown on average by 0.6% year-on-year over this time period....
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Changes in Human Capital: Implications for Productivity Growth in the Euro Area
Schwerdt, Guido; Turunen, Jarkko - 2007
The euro area has experienced a sustained decline in labour productivity growth sincethe 1980s. In the economic literature this phenomenon is commonly explained by adecline in capital deepening and lower total factor productivity (TFP) growth. However,the decline in labour productivity growth...
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ICT and Productivity: A Review of the Literature
Biagi, Federico - 2013
In this report we review the literature on the relationship between ICT and productivity. In Sect. 1 we discuss in … broad terms the theoretical relationship between ICT and productivity, while in Sect. 2 we present the growth accounting … methodology, which tries to measure the contributions to growth from difference sources (ICT and non ICT capital, human capital …
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Ageing and productivity growth: are there macro-level cohort effects of human capital?
Werding, Martin - 2008
Slower growth of the labour force and an increase in old-age dependency will reduce the growth of aggregate output and output per capita in many developed countries. However, a major question is whether there is any systematic link between demographics and the productivity of those who will...
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Dual Economies and International Total Factor Productivity Differences
Chanda, Areendam; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - 2003
This paper argues that a significant part of measured TFP differences across countries is attributable not to technological factors that affect the entire economy neutrally, but rather, to variations in the structural composition of economies. In particular, the allocation of scarce inputs...
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Durable goods and ICT: The drivers of Euro area productivity growth?
Jalava, Jukka; Kavonius, Ilja Kristian - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effect of durable goods and ICT on Euro Area economic growth and … 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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ICT and productivity growth within value chains
Liu, Chuan; Saam, Marianne - 2019
(ICT)? We analyze this question based on a growth accounting approach at the level of final output. This approach traces … better products have become available to final users, in particular consumers, as a result of the diffusion of ICT. A main … result is that more than half of the productivity gains related to ICT capital deepening for manufactured goods are …
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Changes in Total Factor Productivity
Prochniak, Mariusz - In: Poland. Competitiveness Report 2016. The Role of …, (pp. 141-148). 2016
The chapter includes the analysis of total factor productivity (TFP) for 11 CEE countries, referred to as the EU11 (Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia) during the 2006–2015 period. To assess changes in total...
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