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The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US "productivity miracle" is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …
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lower buying power, have been harmed by the COVID-19 outbreak. This study examines the productivity of Central Europe …
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Turning Europe into a leading `global knowledge-based` economy has become something of an obsession for policy-makers in the EU. From the integrated guidelines of the Lisbon Agenda to the July 2005 announcement of a new scientific European Research Council, considerable effort has been directed...
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fall in labor productivity is explained by an insufficient investment on non-ICT capital as well as by a negative … contribution from Total Factor Productivity (TFP). The positive news is the finding of a slight recovery since 2000 brought about …
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)on the productivity of the manufacturing sectors, as well as their contribution to the rise in productivity of the Spanish …
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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 productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish …
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Technologies (ICTs) in productivity growth, but this research has focused primarily on North America. In the fourth article … ICT capital is a primary driver of labour productivity growth in all UK sectors except mining and quarrying. He concludes … that the weaker productivity performance of the United Kingdom relative to the United States can be attributed mainly to …
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Major European countries, unlike the United States, did not experience an acceleration in labour productivity growth in … 1980-2000 period. They find that total factor productivity growth picked up considerably in the second half of the 1990s … relative to the first half, but that labour productivity growth actually decelerated. This latter development was related to …
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We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970 … productivity growth in the market sector. Econometric evidence also supports an important role for ICT. We also find econometric …
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The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071454