This paper examines productivity, export-intensity, skills-intensity and technological differences between foreign and … significant technology index, human resource, process technology and R&D capabilities than local firms. However, the remaining t …-tests produced mixed results. Nonetheless, foreign firms enjoyed stronger statistical relationships between the technology index, and …

productivity, the coefficient of technology index was higher in the foreign firms' sample than in the local firms' sample. Local … significant Kenyan results suggest that foreign firms' technology, productivity and export-intensity levels in economies with weak …This paper uses firm level survey data to examine productivity, and export, skills and technological intensities …

technological innovations that have raised productivity and, accordingly, removed pricing power from producers. Although the 2001 … Economic Review contains four articles that examine the underpinnings of the "new economy"-technology and its effects on … macroeconomic growth and the labor market. These papers were among those presented at the "Technology, Growth, and the Labor Market …

information technology (IT) or information and communications technology (ICT) and productivity, but few have examined the …Until recently, most studies examining the effect of computerization on productivity have shown little evidence of a … payoff to computer investment in terms of productivity growth. Most of these studies have focused on the connection between …

sectors. ; In this article, the authors analyze the sources of U.S. labor productivity growth in the post-1995 period and … present projections for both output and labor productivity growth for the next decade. Despite the 2001 downward revisions to … U.S. gross domestic product and software investment, the authors show that information technology (IT) played a …

have funded increased productivity that has helped to accelerate U.S. economic growth. This success has spawned an interest …

Productivity growth in the U.S. economy jumped during the second half of the 1990s, a resurgence that many analysts … linked to developments in information technology (IT). However, shortly after this consensus emerged, demand for IT products … fell sharply, leading to a debate about the connection between IT and productivity and about the sustainability of the …

of technology is embodied in the capital stock. Classic papers from the late 1950's and 1960's show that non …-optimization models display the same asymptotic growth rates whether technology is embodied (vintage capital) or disembodied. This paper …