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Techies and firm level productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023
effect goes beyond the employment of R&D workers, extending to ICT and other techies. In non-manufacturing firms, the impact … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …
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Digital technology diffusion : a matter of capabilities, incentives or both?
Andrews, Dan; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Timiliotis, Christina - 2018
technology adoption. Specifically, we find strong support for the hypothesis that low managerial quality, lack of ICT skills and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914205
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Fixed or open-ended? : labor contracts and productivity in the Colombian manufacturing sector
Castellani, Francesca; Lotti, Giulia; Obando, Nathalie - 2017
Using the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey (AMS) between 2000 and 2014, this paper investigates the effect of labor contract modalities on firm productivity within the industrial sector through a structural model. We find that temporary workers contribute to firms’ labor productivity to a...
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Digital dividend : policies to harness the productivity potential of digital technologies
Sorbe, Stéphane; Gál, Peter; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; … - 2019
This paper presents a range of policies to enhance adoption of digital technologies and firm productivity. It quantifies illustratively the effect of policy changes by combining the results of two recent OECD analyses on the drivers of adoption and their productivity benefits. Increasing access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991961
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Digitalisation and productivity : in search of the holy grail : firm-level empirical evidence from EU countries
Gál, Peter; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Renault, Theodore; … - 2019
This paper assesses how the adoption of a range of digital technologies affects firm productivity. It combines cross-country firm-level data on productivity and industry-level data on digital technology adoption in an empirical framework that accounts for firm heterogeneity. The results provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995804
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Productivity, investment in ICT and market experimentation : micro evidence from Germany und the US
Haltiwanger, John C.; Jarmin, Ronald S.; Schank, Thorsten - 2003
This paper examines the relationship between the use of advanced technologies such as ICT, and outcomes such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509836
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The People's Republic of China's Import Competition and Skill Demand in Japanese Manufacturing
Yamashita, Nobuaki - 2017
This paper examines the hypothesis that manufacturing industries in Japan that have been exposed to import competition from the People's Republic of China (PRC) experience greater skill upgrading (increased demand for skilled workers). Using an industry panel dataset over the period 1980–2010,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958267
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Skill Biased Technical Change and Misallocation : A Unified Framework
Battisti, Michele - 2019
Due to strict reliance on competitive labor markets, standard approaches which measure skill biased technical change (SBTC) conflate labor market distortions which prevent firms from choosing the efficient ratio between skilled and unskilled labor and `true' SBTC. This contrasts with recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869261
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The People's Republic of China's import competition and skill demand in Japanese manufacturing
Yamashita, Nobuaki - 2017
This paper examines the hypothesis that manufacturing industries in Japan that have been exposed to import competition from the People's Republic of China (PRC) experience greater skill upgrading (increased demand for skilled workers). Using an industry panel dataset over the period 1980-2010,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591124
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Boosting productivity and living standards in Thailand
Koen, Vincent; Asada, Hidekatsu; Rahuman, Mohamed … - 2018
The Prosperity pillar of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for an integrated approach based on boosting productivity through diversification, upgrading technology and innovation, and increasing employment and entrepreneurship. Thailand needs to address all these challenges to...
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