The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use … apparent ‘productivity paradox’. The most obvious one is the fact that not many countries, other than the US, have yet invested …

variance of its components, which is then applied to measure the relative contributions of productivity, hours per worker, and … employment to cyclical output growth across a panel of countries. Measured productivity contributes more to the cycle in Europe …

US labor productivity in ICT-skill intensive industries experienced tremendousincreases in post-1995 trend growth … thesource of industry productivity growth in German ICT-skill intensive sectors, there is noempirical evidence on the influence … Transport, were found to haveexperienced strong productivity growth via ICT-skill complementarities. These findingsshed light on …

The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the … between labour productivity and IT intensity is not affected by the proportion of older workers. … age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from …

This paper examines the link between information technology (IT) and the U.S. productivity revival in the late 1990s …. Industry-level data show a broad productivity resurgence that reflects both the production and the use of IT. The most IT …-intensive industries experienced significantly larger productivity gains than other industries and a wide variety of econometric tests show …

This paper investigates the relative labor productivity level for total manufacturing in Germany, Sweden and the US for … the period 1980-2001. The paper also presents estimates of labor productivity levels for 18 different manufacturing … industries for the period 1993-2000. The results show that the Swedish manufacturing productivity caught up with German and US …

productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … is evidenced in a greater dispersion in productivity and related key business choices. We also find that the mean impact … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. …

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US … productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However …, the size of the estimated growth rate of total factor productivity depends on an assumption about the factor …

The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be … especially the most recent generation of IT as indicated by the number of PCs used is the source of productivity growth whereas …