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New enabling technologies are shaping the transformation of production activities. This process of change is characterised by growing digitization, inter-connectivity and automation. The diffusion of new technologies is, however, very uneven, and firms display different adoption behaviours. By...
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This paper provides theoretical foundations to the contemporaneous increase in computer usage, human capital and multi-tasking observed in many OECD countries during the 1990s. The links between work organization, technology and human capital is modelled by establishing theconditions under which...
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mobility can explain differences in their per-capita income and labor productivity. We disentangle the role played by global … human-mobility network enhances both per-capita income and labor productivity. Our results hold cross-sectionally, as well … network. Our exercises also suggest that most of the gain in income and productivity can be attained if country centrality in …
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This study investigates induced productivity effects of firms introducing new environmental technologies. The … literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can achieve higher productivity gains from … associated with lower productivity, the simultaneous implementation of green technologies and organisational innovations is not. …
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for monetary policy, such as output, productivity, investment, employment and prices. This paper takes stock of … through a number of channels, including productivity, employment, competition and prices; (iii) digitalisation raises … productivity and lowers prices, similarly to other supply/technology shocks; (iv) this has implications for monetary policy and its …
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It is a triumph of technology and of economics that our computer chips are so universal. Countless applications are only possible because of the staggering variety of calculations that modern chips can compute. But, this was not always the case. Computers used to be specialized, doing only...
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productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …
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productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …
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effects of information technologies (IT) and communication technologies (CT). Guided by the theory that IT and CT differently …' levels of education in affecting firms' productivity. Exploiting within-firm variation between 2005-2017, we find that the … evidence on the necessity for differentiating between the effects of IT and CT on firm productivity when differently educated …
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