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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062624
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001370883
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050338
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Human-mobility networks, country income, and labor productivity
Fagiolo, Giorgio; Santoni, Gianluca - 2014
mobility can explain differences in their per-capita income and labor productivity. We disentangle the role played by global … human-mobility network enhances both per-capita income and labor productivity. Our results hold cross-sectionally, as well … network. Our exercises also suggest that most of the gain in income and productivity can be attained if country centrality in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403724
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Organisational change and the productivity effects of green technology adoption
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2016 - This version January 2016
This study investigates induced productivity effects of firms introducing new environmental technologies. The … literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can achieve higher productivity gains from … associated with lower productivity, the simultaneous implementation of green technologies and organisational innovations is not. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411433
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The Decline of Computers As a General Purpose Technology : Why Deep Learning and the End of Moore’s Law are Fragmenting Computing
Thompson, Neil - 2019
It is a triumph of technology and of economics that our computer chips are so universal. Countless applications are only possible because of the staggering variety of calculations that modern chips can compute. But, this was not always the case. Computers used to be specialized, doing only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897333
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The Diffusion of Technological Progress in ICT
Elstner, Steffen; Grimme, Christian; Kecht, Valentin; … - 2021
productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314751
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The diffusion of technological progress in ICT
Elstner, Steffen; Grimme, Christian; Kecht, Valentin; … - 2020
productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391362
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Is technological change really skills-biased? : firm-level evidence of the complementarities between ICT and workers' education
Bolli, Thomas; Pusterla, Filippo - 2019
effects of information technologies (IT) and communication technologies (CT). Guided by the theory that IT and CT differently …' levels of education in affecting firms' productivity. Exploiting within-firm variation between 2005-2017, we find that the … evidence on the necessity for differentiating between the effects of IT and CT on firm productivity when differently educated …
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