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This paper addresses the empirical relationship between the level of competition and the rate of productivity growth … level of competition for each sector that is defined by the mark-up that maximizes the growth rate of labor productivity …. The information technologies Sectors have the highest mark-ups for maximizing productivity growth. The persistence of …
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Our paper is based on the qualitative content analysis (Gläser/Laudel 2010) of expert interviews with IT managers in German speaking countries. Drawing also from organisational development processes we have been carrying out, we analyse how the tension between the service function of IT as...
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, and a quick response to clients' dynamic requirements as well as productivity that can ensure its survival. Production has … productivity of the manufacturing process. For the purpose of this research, the methodology of collecting, analyzing, and … reduction of non-value adding activities and the improvement of the overall productivity of the production process. In addition …
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The last two decades have seen a lot research devoted to understanding the economic impact of telecoms infrastructure; however, the explosion of mobile technology, especially in the last decade, has received much less attention. This study addresses important evidence gaps by considering the...
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This paper estimates the non-linear impact of ICT network on motorway contribution to total factor productivity. Using …
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The paper describes the dynamic features of the ICT sector today, through a comparison among countries of the evolving role of investments in R&D in ICT. 41 geographical areas are analysed: 28 European member states, the EU as a whole, the United States, Canada, Australia, five Asian countries...
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The productivity generated by capital goods is not uniform along the time. When there exist conventional physical … capital goods the productivity obtained is minor that the one generated by quality capital goods. To obtain a correct measure … productivity of the investment goods constructing hedonic prices indices. This school is represented among others by Hulten (1992 …
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technological change in terms of technological congruence and its effects on total factor productivity (TFP). Evolution of the match …
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We study the origins of labor productivity growth and its differences across sectors. In our model, sectors employ … a large and increasing contribution to aggregate labor productivity growth. Neither capital accumulation nor the …
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