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Computer Technology, Human Labor, and Long-Run Economic Growth

Elliott, Stuart W. - 1998

Over the coming century, computer technology is likely to become capable of reproducing a large portion of the tasks performed by human labor. This paper develops a model of the aggregate economic growth that results when work tasks are transferred from humans to physical capital. The model...

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Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work : from Tayloristic to holistic organization

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristicʺ organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holisticʺ organization (featuring job rotation, integration of...

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Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work : from Tayloristic to holistic organization

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294704

Digitalisation and productivity : a report by the ESCB expert group on productivity, innovation and technological change

Bijnens, Gert; Botelho, Vasco; Falck, Elisabeth; … - 2024

The productivity-enhancing effects of digitalisation have generated increased interest in the promotion of digital … technologies. This report provides different estimations for euro area countries of the impact of digital uptake on productivity at … firm level, showing that the adoption of digital technologies could lead to an increase in firms' productivity in the …

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ICT, skills, and organisational change : evidence from a panel of Italian manufacturing firms

Giuri, Paola (contributor); Torrisi, Salvatore (contributor) - 2006

. Our findings suggest that the productivity gains from investments in the three innovative activities are related to firm … size. -- Organizational change ; ICT investment ; skills ; human capital ; productivity ; complementarity ; SMEs …

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Digitalizing firms: skills, work organization and the adoption of new enabling technologies

Cirillo, Valeria; Fanti, Lucrezia; Mina, Andrea; Ricci, … - 2021

New enabling technologies are shaping the transformation of production activities. This process of change is characterised by growing digitization, inter-connectivity and automation. The diffusion of new technologies is, however, very uneven, and firms display different adoption behaviours. By...

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Human Capital Accumulation and the Transition from Specialization to Multi-Tasking

Crifo, Patricia; Boucekkine, Raouf - 2013

This paper provides theoretical foundations to the contemporaneous increase in computer usage, human capital and multi-tasking observed in many OECD countries during the 1990s. The links between work organization, technology and human capital is modelled by establishing theconditions under which...

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The human component as a determining factor of labor productivity in the digital economy

Akaev, Askar; Sadovničij, Viktor Antonovič - In: Studies on Russian economic development 32 (2021) 1, pp. 29-36

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Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work: From Tayloristic to holistic organization

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

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How do technical education and vocational training affect labour productivity in India?

Sangita, Seema - 2021 - This working paper was last revised on October 2018

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