Productivity growth in the U.S. economy jumped during the second half of the 1990s, a resurgence that many analysts …, leading to a lively debate about the connection between IT and productivity and about the sustainability of the faster growth … acceleration in labor productivity after 1995 was driven largely by the greater use of IT capital goods and by the more rapid …

productivity growth in the mid-1990s. This paper traces the evolution of productivity estimates to document how and when this … of the late 1990s that this investment and underlying productivity increases in the IT-producing sectors were identified … that private sector productivity growth will average around 2.5 percent per year for the next decade, a pace that is only …

accumulation, a surge in hours worked, and faster growth of total factor productivity. The acceleration of productivity growth …

This paper revisits the so-called ‘ICT-productivity paradox' from a long-run perspective by using annual Australian … data for about five decades. It provides estimates of long-run and short-run elasticities of labour productivity with … respect to ICT capital deepening, explores the nature of long-run causality among productivity growth and ICT and non …

We ask whether a weaker contribution of information and communication technologies (ICT) to productivity growth could … account for the productivity slowdown observed in Canada since the early 2000s. To answer this question, we consider several … methods capturing channels through which ICT could affect aggregate productivity growth. This includes an approach "à la Cette …

We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both … manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this effect goes beyond the …

productivity in a number of developed countries in the 1990's. There are however no studies, which would estimate the contribution … of ICT to growth and productivity in post-communist, transition economies. Data availability, consistency, and … framework, at estimating the contribution of investment in ICT to output growth and labor productivity in Poland, the largest …

Following up on a previous paper by the same author on the contribution of ICT capital to growth and labor productivity … telecommunication equipment to output growth and labor productivity between 1995 and 2000 in most countries featured in the study was … in output and labor productivity and hence accelerate the process of catching-up. The relatively large contribution of …

This paper develops a measure of intangible capital and examines the contribution of intangibles to labour productivity ….23 in 1976 to 0.66 in 2008. The paper shows that intangibles made a significant contribution to labour productivity growth … and that the contribution of intangibles to labour productivity growth was only slightly lower than the contribution of …