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OCEAN FREIGHT RATES AND PRODUCTIVITY, 1740-1913: THE PRIMACY OF MECHANICAL INVENTION REAFFIRMED

HARLEY, C.K. - University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics - 1988

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The Widening Canada-US Productivity Gap in Manufaturing

Bernstein, Jeffrey I.; Harris, Richard G.; Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 3-22

Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has …-US labour productivity gap. The authors find that the growth in the gap largely reflects the acceleration of productivity growth … weaker productivity growth. It is estimated that these two factors themselves account for 70 per cent of the widening of the …

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Natural Capital, Sustainability and Productivity: An Exploration of the Linkages

Olewiler, Nancy - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

the crucial, but often ignored, role of productivity in the maintenance of natural capital sustainability. Olewiler …

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Las cajas de ahorro y el cambio tecnológico antes de Internet, 1945-1995

Maixe-Altes, J. Carles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Technical advances in retail banking have had profound repercussions for the competitiveness of individual firms and for the sector as a whole. This paper looks at the role played by new technological resources within the context of organizational change and the products and services offered by...

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GDP per capita in advanced countries over the 20th century

Bergeaud, A.; Cette, G.; Lecat, R. - Banque de France - 2015

are total factor productivity, capital intensity (capital stock per hours worked), working time and employment rate. Over … countries, especially because of the surge in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and in capital intensity. The main results of the …

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The Big Trade-Off in the World of Labor

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The world is changing rapidly. This paper describes key shifts and it discusses their likely impacts on employment-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However, there will be no "end of work". Rather, it is that...

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Debreu's Coefficient of Resource Utilization, the Solow Residual and TPF : The Connection by Leontief Preferences

ten Raa, Thijs - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

decomposition of productivity growth into technical change and efficiency change.The terms can now be broken down by sector as well …

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Robots at work

Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 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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R&D and Innovation Activities – Search for Better Definitions and an Economic-Historical Approach*

Vokoun, Marek - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014

The paper examines the challenges social scientists face when analysing innovation, especially R&D and innovation activities of firms, i.e. their strategies in typical stages of an innovation process in a defined economy. The motivation behind is to describe properly the innovation activities of...

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Robots at Work

Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

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