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The Contribution of ICT-Producing and ICT-Using Industries to Productivity Growth: A Comparison of Canada, Europe and the United States
Ark, Bart van; Inklaar, Robert; McGuckin, Robert H. - In: International Productivity Monitor 6 (2003) Spring, pp. 56-63
Both ICT-producing and ICT-using industries have contributed disproportionately to labour productivity growth in the 1990s. In this article, Bart van Ark, Robert Inklaar from the University of Groningen and Robert H. McGuckin of the U.S. Conference Board compare Canada, the United States and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518955
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Assessment of industrial performance and the relationship between skill, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan
Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
, upskilling, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan. Our findings are consistent with the stylized facts in the new … the positive complementary relationships between technology, skill and upskilling. Different from the Sudanese literature … skill indicators; between skill, upskilling, technology and input-output indicators and industrial performance indicators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712082
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Assessment of skill and technology indicators at the macro-micro levels in Sudan
Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
In this paper we examine skill and technology indicators at the macro and micro levels in Sudan. Different from the … consequences of low skill and technology indicators at the macro and micro levels in Sudan. We verify our first hypothesis that the …; weak technology indicators and dependence on foreign technologies at the micro level. We confirm our second hypothesis that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712092
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Assessment of industrial performance and the relationship between skill, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan
Nour, Samia - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
, upskilling, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan. Our findings are consistent with the stylized facts in the new … the positive complementary relationships between technology, skill and upskilling. Different from the Sudanese literature … skill indicators; between skill, upskilling, technology and input-output indicators and industrial performance indicators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195547
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Assessment of skill and technology indicators at the macro-micro levels in Sudan
Nour, Samia - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
In this paper we examine skill and technology indicators at the macro and micro levels in Sudan. Different from the … consequences of low skill and technology indicators at the macro and micro levels in Sudan. We verify our first hypothesis that the …; weak technology indicators and dependence on foreign technologies at the micro level. We confirm our second hypothesis that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195548
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“What Drives the Choice of Partners in R&D Cooperation? Heterogeneity across Sectors”
Badillo, Erika; Moreno, Rosina - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2012
In this paper we analyse the heterogeneity in firms’ decisions to engage in R&D cooperation, taking into account the type of partner (other companies from the same group, suppliers or customers, competitors, and research institutions) and the sector to which the firm belongs (industrial or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010554890
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“What Drives the Choice of Partners in R&D Cooperation? Heterogeneity across Sectors”
Badillo, Erika; Moreno, Rosina - Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada (IREA), … - 2012
In this paper we analyse the heterogeneity in firms’ decisions to engage in R&D cooperation, taking into account the type of partner (other companies from the same group, suppliers or customers, competitors, and research institutions) and the sector to which the firm belongs (industrial or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635862
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Industrial energy from water-mills in the European economy, 5th to 18th Centuries: the limitations of power,
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
The water-mill, though known in the Roman Empire from the second century BCE, did not come to enjoy any widespread use until the 4th or 5th centuries CE, and then chiefly in the West, which was then experiencing not only a rapid decline in the supply of slaves, but also widespread depopulation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837349
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The Diffusion of ICTs and Growth of the French Economy over the Long-term, 1980-2000
Cette, Gilbert; Mairesse, Jacques; Kocoglu, Yusuf - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 27-38
Major European countries, unlike the United States, did not experience an acceleration in labour productivity growth in the second half of the 1990s. In this article, Gilbert Cette from the Bank of France and the University of Aix-Marseilles II, Jacques Mairesse of INSEE-CREST, and Yusef Kocoglu...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650251
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On the Sources of Convergence : A Close Look at the Spanish Regions.
de la Fuente, A - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 1996
The dominant view in the recent literature on regional convergence seems to be that the evolution of regional incomes in the industrial countries is characterized by very slow but absolute beta convergence. In this paper we challenge this view on the basis of an analysis of the Spanish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572230