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Explaining Productivity Growth: The Role of Demographics
Beaudry, Paul; Collard, Fabrice; Green, David A. - In: International Productivity Monitor 10 (2005) Spring, pp. 45-58
The impact of demographic developments on productivity is still a little-explored subject. The authors find a strong … and unexpected link between slow labour productivity growth and rapid labour force growth over the period from the mid …
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Fewer babies and more robots : economic growth in a new era of demographic and technological changes
Jimeno, Juan F. - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 10 (2019) 2, pp. 93-114
savings and investment. Jointly with meagre productivity growth, this implies a low natural rate of interest that conditions …, artificial intelligence, automation) may increase productivity growth but at the risk of having disruptive effects on employment …
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Working Paper 17-08 - Growth and Productivity in Belgium
Biatour, Bernadette; Kegels, Chantal - Federal Planning Bureau, Government of Belgium - 2008
The objective of the report is to provide an overview of the main drivers of economic growth and the productivity … accounting methodology is applied to explain value added and labour productivity growth for the total economy, manufacturing and … contribution of these factors of production to economic and productivity growth. Contributions of the main industries to value …
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Decomposing Productivity Growth in the U.S. Computer Industry
Chun, H.; Nadiri, M.I. - C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Department of … - 2002
In this paper, we examine the sources of the productivity growth in the U.S. computer industry from 1978 to 1999. We … and product innovations. Based on the estimation results, we decompose total factor productivity (TFP) growth rate into …
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ICT and Productivity Growth in Transition Economies: Two-Phase Convergence and Structural Reforms
Piatkowski, Marcin; Bart, van Ark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) as a driver of improved productivity …. The paper investigates how, and to what extent, ICT contributed to a narrowing in the productivity gap. Although … investment in ICT capital has strongly increased, total factor productivity (TFP) growth has made the largest contribution to …
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Structural development accounting
Gancia, Gino; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011
We construct and estimate a unifi…ed model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
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Working Paper 05-11 - Productivity gains and spillovers from offshoring
Michel, Bernhard Klaus - Federal Planning Bureau, Government of Belgium - 2011
Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This … productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data … results show that there is no productivity effect of materials offshoring, while business services offshoring leads to …
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Social Capital and growth in European regions
Neira, I.; Portela, M.; Vieira, E. - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 10 (2010) 2
the Solow model towards a wide function that collects conditioning factors of labour productivity, measured by R & D …
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International technology diffusion through patents during the second half of the XXth century
Llopis, M. Teresa Sanchis; Garcia, Vicente Esteve; … - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2010
This paper analyzes the impact of domestic and foreign technology in explaining Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth …
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Structural development accounting
Gancia, Gino; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010
We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756413