Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and innovative activities, as well as recorded information on trade and worker …

adopters of electric motors and ICT, on average would have contributed more to productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing …This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish … manufacturing during electrification and the ICT revolution. The paper distinguishes between technology-producing, intensive and …

A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik … Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion …

to developments in labour productivity - allowing for human capital accumulation - and multifactor productivity (MFP … in ICT equipment) and disembodied components of technical progress. The possible relation between improvements in MFP and … factors behind growth performance, especially in connection with the diffusion of ICT and related increases in MFP growth …

growth rates. For the ICT revolution the highest productivity growth rates are found in the ICT-producing industries. We …This study consists of an examination of productivity growth following three major technological breakthroughs: the … steam power revolution, electrification and the ICT revolution. The distinction between sectors producing and sectors using …

The paper offers some reflections on the convergence of productivity in the United States and Europe, which essentially …. But since then trends in productivity growth have been importantly affected by the advent of the New Economy, which poses …