Corporate restructuring and labor productivity growth
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ICT , Corporate Restructuring and Productivity
We are motivated by attempts to understand the rapid growth in US productivity, particularly in ICT using sectors. We note that one of the largest changes in the US economy over the later part of the 1990s was the rapid growth in sectors that produce intermediate services, suggesting that a large number of US firms were restructuring and outsourcing services. The UK experienced some of these sa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Industrial and Corporate Change
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1464-3650,0960-6491
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtl015