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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …
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R&D, Production Structure, and Productivity Growth in the U.S., Japaneseand German Manufacturing Sectors
Mohnen, Pierre A. - 1984
.S., Japan and Germany. A dynamic factor demand model with two variable inputs (labor and energy)and two quasi-fixed inputs …
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Did Computer Technology Diffuse Quickly? : Best and Average Practice in Mainframe Computers, 1968-1983
Greenstein, Shane M. - 1994
An economy benefits from advances in technical frontiers only when new technology comes into general use. This paper measures the diffusion of computing equipment at a time when computing technology underwent dramatic technical improvement. These data shed light on the long lag between advances...
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Economic analysis of the digital economy
Goldfarb, Avi (ed.); Greenstein, Shane M. (contributor);  … - 2015
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Digital Economics
Goldfarb, Avi - 2017
Digital technology is the representation of information in bits. This technology has reduced the cost of storage, computation, and transmission of data. Research on digital economics examines whether and how digital technology changes economic activity. In this review, we emphasize the reduction...
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Adoption of New Information and Communications Technologies in the Workplace Today
Bresnahan, Timothy - 2016
The invention of new applications based on information and communications technologies (ICTs) has had two economic effects up to now. These applications have transformed production, creating value for applications-inventing companies and their customers and increasing economic growth through...
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Measuring Changes in the Bilateral Technology Gaps between China, India and the U.S. 1979 - 2008
Shen, Keting - 2015
Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large … (especially in sciences) in China in recent years. Little literature attempts to measure the technology gap directly using … the later reflect both differing factor endowments and technology parameters. This paper assesses changes in China …
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Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning
Erel, Isil - 2018
Can an algorithm assist firms in their hiring decisions of corporate directors? This paper proposes a method of selecting boards of directors that relies on machine learning. We develop algorithms with the goal of selecting directors that would be preferred by the shareholders of a particular...
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Computerization of White Collar Jobs
Dillender, Marcus; Forsythe, Eliza - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate the impact of computerization of white-collar jobs on wages and employment. Using online job postings from 2007 and 2010--2016 for office and administrative support (OAS) jobs, we show that when firms adopt new software at the job-title level they increase the skills required of...
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