The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use … ICT investment and economic growth in the period 1985-99 for a sample of 42 countries for which ICT spending data are … apparent ‘productivity paradox’. The most obvious one is the fact that not many countries, other than the US, have yet invested …

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … well. By implication, policies that stimulate investment and R&D and policies that affect the size of the labor force may … productivity. …

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and …

Finland from 1975 to 2001. ICT-production has in the late 1990s had significant impacts on growth and labour productivity (LP …. Labour productivity growth in the period 1995 to 2001 manifests larger structural changes than in previous periods, with the … step-up in multi-factor productivity being the most notable. The relative contribution of ICT-capital deepening has also …

) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be …. Moreover, dividing IT-investment by the type of IT clarifies that the kind of IT a firm uses is more important for productivity …The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by …

appears unaffected: investment rates are flat, and productivity has slowed down. We investigate whether measurement issues … as intermediate consumption. Thus they do not count as either GDP or investment. We ask how treating such spending as … investment affects some key macro variables, namely, market sector gross value added (MGVA), business investment, capital and …

This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish … productivity growth and the overall contribution to labor productivity growth was considerably higher in technology … adopters of electric motors and ICT, on average would have contributed more to productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing. …

. Our findings suggest that the productivity gains from investments in the three innovative activities are related to firm …

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 …

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 …