Research Catalog
Productivity, inequality, and the digital economy : a transatlantic perspective
- Title
- Productivity, inequality, and the digital economy : a transatlantic perspective / edited by Nathalie Greenan, Yannick L'Horty, and Jacques Mairesse.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2002], ©2002.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | HC240.9.I52 P764 2002 | Off-site |
Holdings
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- x, 305 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Industrial productivity > United States > Congresses
- Income distribution > United States > Congresses
- Labor productivity > Europe > Congresses
- Employees > Effect of technological innovations on > United States > Congresses
- Information technology > Economic aspects > Europe > Congresses
- Information technology > Economic aspects > United States > Congresses
- Unemployment > United States > Congresses
- Employees > Effect of technological innovations on > Europe > Congresses
- Solow, Robert M > Congresses
- Labor productivity > United States > Congresses
- Unemployment > Europe > Congresses
- Industrial productivity > Europe > Congresses
- Income distribution > Europe > Congresses
- Note
- Revised contributions and discussions from a two-day international conference on "Information and Communications Technologies, Employment, and Earnings," organized by the editors, held in Nice in June 1998, and sponsored by the Conseil de l'Emploi, des Revenus et de la Cohésion Sociale (CERC), and by the 10th CREST-NBER Franco-American economic seminar.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Puzzling Relations between the Computer and the Economy / Nathalie Greenan, Yannick L'Horty and Jacques Mairesse -- I. The Productivity Puzzle. 1. The Mismeasurement Hypothesis and the Productivity Slowdown: The Evidence / Jack E. Triplett -- Comments / Dietmar Harhoff. 2. Information Technology, Organizational Transformation, and Business Performance / Lorin M. Hitt and Erik Brynjolfsson -- Comments / Jacques Mairesse. 3. Innovation and Employment: A Critical Survey / Vincenzo Spiezia and Marco Vivarelli -- Comments / Marie-Claire Villeval -- II. The Inequality Puzzle. 4. Technological Bias and Employment Inequality: A Macroeconomic Perspective / Henri R. Sneessens -- Comments / Jean-Pierre Laffargue. 5. Technical Change and the Structure of Employment and Wages: A Survey of the Microeconometric Evidence / Lucy Chennells and John Van Reenen -- Comments / Eric Maurin.
- 6. By What Means Does Information Technology Affect Employment and Wages? / Kathryn Shaw -- Comments / Nathalie Greenan -- Conclusion: Computers, Productivity, and Wages; Reflections on the Economics of the Information Age / Timothy F. Bresnahan.
- ISBN
- 0262072335 (hc. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001059646
- OCLC
- ocm48675659
- SCSB-4302614
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries