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What's New About the New Economy? IT, Economic Growth and Productivity

Bosworth, Barry P.; Triplett, Jack E. - In: International Productivity Monitor 2 (2001) Spring, pp. 19-30

Has the economy fundamentally changed in the 1990s because of the introduction of information technology or is the impact of IT not so much "new" as larger than before? In this article, Barry Bosworth and Jack Triplett of the Brooking Institution examine this issue with a detailed analysis of...

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Editor's Overview

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 1-2

The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of the information and communications technology sector to...

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The Contribution of ICTs to Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s

Rao, Someshwar; Tang, Jianmin - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 3-18

The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the 1990s has been a matter of great concern to Canadians, with a wide variety of explanations put forward to account for this development. A key issue is whether this slower...

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International sectoral spillovers : an empircal analysis for German and US Industries

Smolny, Werner - 1995

In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and Germany for 1960-1990. The time-series/cross-sectoral data set allows to investigate country-specific convergence, and to control for sector-specific differences in human...

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How much does immigration boost innovation?

Hunt, Jennifer (contributor); … - 2009

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual patenting behavior as well as state-level determinants of patenting. The 2003 National Survey of College Graduates shows that immigrants patent at double the native rate, and that...

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Fixed Cost, Imperfect Competition and Bias in Technology Measurement : Japan and The United States

Nishimura, Kiyohiko - 2000

. However, traditional measurement of technological progress assumes perfect competition and no fixed cost. This paper … incorporates these two factors in the technological-progress measurement and investigates the biases caused by their omission. We … measurement underestimates the true technological progress. We apply this methodology to Japanese and US industries, and find that …

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Understanding productivity : a review of recent technical research

Dion, Richard (contributor); Fay, Robert (contributor) - 2008

The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro levels. They focus primarily on papers written about Canada, but also draw on selected studies from other countries, especially the United States, where such work sheds...

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Tangible and intangible assets in the growth performance of the EU, Japan and the US

Adarov, Amat; Stehrer, Robert - 2019

This paper discusses new results using the EU KLEMS 2019 Release focussing on the role of ICT and intangibles assets employing a growth accounting framework and an econometric analysis. The EU KLEMS 2019 data covers most EU Member States, the US and Japan, forty detailed industries according to...

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Editor's Overview

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 1-2

, and finally a symposium of three articles on the measurement and interpretation of total factor productivity. In addition …

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The Productivity Renaissance in the U.S. Service Sector

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 6-8

This article, which is closely related to the previous article, is also by Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards. It points out that there now appears to be a renaissance in productivity growth in the U.S. service sector, with output per worker growing five times faster...

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