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Productivity, investment in ICT and market experimentation: micro evidence from Germany und the US

Haltiwanger, John; Jarmin, Ron; Schank, Thorsten - 2003

Kenngrößen wie der Produktivität, der Qualifikationsstruktur und den Löhnen, wobei Mikrodaten für die USA und Deutschland … verwendet wurden. Dabei kann die Hypothese unterstützt werden, dass in den USA Betriebe stärker experimentieren - gemessen … durchschnittlichen Einfluss der Einführung neuer Technologien auf die Produktivität und die Löhne in den USA als in Deutschland. …

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New economy in der Krise?

Erber, Georg; Hagemann, Harald - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 82 (2002) 1, pp. 23-32

Der scharfe konjunkturelle Einbruch in den USA seit Beginn des vergangenen Jahres hat in der breiten Öffentlichkeit zur …

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ICT, Clusters and Regional Cohesion: A Summary of Theoretical and Empirical Research

Maignan, Carole; Pinelli, Dino; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2003

The question of the spatial impacts of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated the intellectual and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the rise of the Internet brought a new surge of debate: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy...

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Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Gautier, Pieter A.; de Wind, Joris - 2010

Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where...

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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014

An increasingly influential technological-discontinuity paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are 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...

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Labour productivity developments in the euro area

Gomez-Salvador, Ramon; Musso, Alberto; Stocker, Marc; … - 2006

This paper provides a description and a discussion of some important aspects relating to recent productivity developments in the euro area. Following decades of stronger gains in the euro area than in the US, labour productivity growth has fallen behind that in the US in recent years. This...

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Nested stochastic possibility frontiers with heterogeneous capital inputs

Erber, Georg; Madlener, Reinhard - 2007

This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of the U.S. at the macroeconomic level. The stochastic possibility frontiers approach of Battese and Coelli (1992) applied here is used to identify neutralities or non-neutralities...

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Explaining shifts in the unemployment rate with productivity slowdowns and accelerations: a co-breaking approach

Schreiber, Sven - 2009

We investigate the controversial issue whether unemployment is related to productivity growth in the long run, using U.S. data in a framework of infrequent mean shifts. Tests find (endogenously dated) shifts around 1974, 1986, and 1996, system techniques indicate that the shifts are common...

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The adoption and diffusion of organizational innovation: evidence for the US economy

Lynch, Lisa M. - 2007

Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...

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Measuring economc growth and the new economy

Vanhoudt, Patrick; Onorante, Luca - In: EIB Papers 6 (2001) 1, pp. 63-83

For years the economics profession has been puzzled by one of the most perplexing economic problems - the overall slowdown in the growth rate of labour productivity since 1973. Not only was the deceleration a worldwide trend, the growth of productivity also turned out to be markedly slower in...

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