Productivity, Inequality, and the Digital Economy: A Transatlantic Perspective
Nathalie Greenan is a researcher in economics at the Centre d'Etudes de l'Emploi and an associate researcher at the Centre National de Recherches Scientifique.
Yannick L'Horty is Professor of Economics at the University of Evry.
Jacques Mairesse is Inspecteur-Général at the Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique and a senior researcher at the Centre de la Recherche en Economie et Statistique.
Essays on the computer and the economy, particularly in relation to employment rates and to wage inequality.
The widespread diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) has had controversial, seemingly paradoxical consequences. ICT are viewed as driving growth and employment in the United States, while contributing to European unemployment and the so-called Eurosclerosis. At the same time, both the United States and Europe have seen increased wage inequalities between skilled and unskilled workers.This book explores the computer's puzzling effects on the economy, at both the micro and macro levels. The contributions include data from field work, small samples of firms, and national surveys of management practice; econometric studies; and macroeconomic theoretical analysis.
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I: The Productivity Puzzle
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II: The Inequality Puzzle
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