This paper examines the effect of a new technology on a labour-intensive service. Comparing primal and dual TFP-growth with final-year social savings, we find that, between 1900 and 1938, motion pictures increased entertainment output (measured in spectator-hours) by at least nine percent...

This research is the outcome of fieldwork undertaken between November 2002 and 2003 inAl Gharaza village part of Khartoum State - the Sudan capital.The study focuses on identifying how spaces and times are interrelated and engendered. Theforces that impact the creation of boundaries or those...

Using German firm-level data, an endogenous switching regression model within a production function framework is estimated in order to explore differences in labor productivity between IT outsourcing and non-IT outsourcing firms. This approach takes possible complementarities between IT...