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ICT and its spillovers on productivity in Canada, focusing on heterogeneity across provinces and industries over time. The …Research on the effect of ICT on productivity in OECD countries is already extensive, but the spillover and time …-varying effects of ICT investment across economic activities have been only minimally explored. This paper investigates the impacts of …
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We study the behaviour of Canadian total factor productivity growth over the past 60 years. We find that the observed … slowed productivity growth. Comparing Canadian TFP growth to that of the United States reinforces these results. However, our …
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This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of …
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In many industries, competition is far from perfect and managerial efficiency (or a fixed cost) varies among firms. However, traditional measurement of technological progress assumes perfect competition and no fixed cost. This paper incorporates these two factors in the technological-progress...
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account for the productivity slowdown observed in Canada since the early 2000s. To answer this question, we consider several …We ask whether a weaker contribution of information and communication technologies (ICT) to productivity growth could … methods capturing channels through which ICT could affect aggregate productivity growth. This includes an approach "à la Cette …
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In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and … had a significant effect on German sectoral productivity growth in the sixties and seventies. Some part of the catching …-up is due to capital-deepening, but most of it is total factor productivity convergence, i.e. endogenous growth models …
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examines implications of these shortcomings for Vietnam. These are low productivity, diminishing GDP growth, middle income trap … structural reforms to change the growth model from factor-based to productivity-based, raising technology level, enhancing human …
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In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...
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productivity growth ; technology indicator ; technology shifter ; OECD countries …
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