We examine how information technology (IT) contributes to organizational change,labor demand, and improved productivity in the public sector using a new paneldata set of police departments covering 1987-2003. While IT adoption is associatedwith increased administrative and organizational...

When considering issues of measuring welfare beyond gross domestic product (GDP), a key ongoing, but unfinished, agenda concerns how to measure the outputs of goods and services which are "free at the point of delivery". Public services such as schools and health services are major examples of...

The effect of law changes on public sector productivity is a growing, yet underresearched, area in economics. Nineteen states enacted state wiretapping legislation following the 9/11 terror attacks, the provisions of which mirror the provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act that relaxed the use of...

Internal communication has become an important factor in today's business world. The increased use of electronic media can, despite their obvious advantages, cause communication problems, i.e. information overload. By avoiding communication problems, the productivity of a company can be...

Composition of the euro area workforce evolves over time and in response to changing labour market conditions. We construct an estimate of growth in euro area labour quality over the period 1983-2004 and show that labour quality has grown on average by 0.6% year-on-year over this time period....

The present System of National Accounts (SNA93) treats durable consumption goods as consumption goods rather than investment although rentals for owner occupied households is imputed into GDP. We argue that households de facto treat the purchase of durable goods as investments and thus, the...

This paper focuses on the euro area wage structure and its potential determinants from a sectoral viewpoint. Merging information from the OECD Structural Analysis database with data from the EU Labour Force Survey, we construct a cross-country panel of 22 industries in 8 euro area countries for...

In den Jahren 2010 und 2011 verbesserte sich die Lohnstückkostenposition des Verarbeitenden Gewerbes in Deutschland insgesamt deutlich. Jedoch ist der Stand von vor der globalen Finanzmarkt- und Wirtschaftskrise bei weitem noch nicht erreicht: Die deutschen Lohnstückkosten waren auch im Jahr...

In der deutschen Industrie sind die Lohnstückkosten im Jahr 2012 um mehr als 4 Prozent gestiegen. Sie lagen damit um 10 Prozent höher als im Vorkrisenjahr 2007. Im Jahr 2012 war die ausländische Industrie im Durchschnitt um 15 Prozent weniger produktiv. Dort sind aber auch die Arbeitskosten...

In der deutschen Industrie stiegen die Lohnstückkosten im Jahr 2013 um mehr als 3 Prozent. Sie lagen damit um 12 Prozent höher als im Vorkrisenjahr 2007. Im Jahr 2013 war die ausländische Industrie im Durchschnitt um 15 Prozent weniger produktiv als die deutsche. Dort waren aber auch die...