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It's Not What You Make, It's How You Use IT: Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the IT Revolution Across Countries

Bayoumi, Tamim; Haacker, Markus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper analyses the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (Information Technology) goods across a wide range of countries. Using two separate methodologies and datasets, we find that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling relative...

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Information Technology Use and Productivity at the Individual Level

Gandal, Neil; King III, Charles; Alstyne, Marshall W. Van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

IT are more productive, and if heavier users of IT are indeed more productive, how does this increase in productivity …

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Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

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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Robots at Work

Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …

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Measurement Issues, the Productivity Slowdown and the Explosion of Computer Power

Baily, Martin; Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

job creation in the US, is its slower productivity growth. This paper begins with data showing that US productivity growth … has been essentially zero since 1973 outside of manufacturing. In contrast, productivity growth in US manufacturing has …

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Getting a Fair Share of the Plunder? Technology, Skill and Wages in British Establishments

Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper uses establishment level data from the British Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS) to examine the effects of new technology on pay. The wage differential associated with new technology is about 5-7% and is (i) robust to corrections for skill, workplace disamenities, and...

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Adjusting to a New Technology: Experience and Training

Helpman, Elhanan; Rangel, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

looking at adjustment mechanisms that operate through labour markets. We show that under a wide set of circumstances the … adjustment path is more likely when inexperienced workers are less productive with the new technology and the faster productivity …

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Unemployment in East and West Europe

Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the evolution of unemployment together with that of...

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Returns to Human Capital Under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy

Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...

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The Union Wage Effect in Late Nineteenth Century Britain

Bailey, Roy E; Boyer, George; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

in Britain between 1889-90 using data from the US Commissioner of Labour survey conducted at that time. The determinants …

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