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This Selected Issues paper examines the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in the recent acceleration of labor productivity growth in the United States. The analysis reveals that the increase of total factor productivity (TFP) growth is a broad phenomenon that encompasses non-ICT...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2004
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
Subjects:
International Migration
Migration
Revenue Administration
Public Finance & Taxation
Personal Income And Other Nonbusiness Taxes And Subsidies
Expenditure
Emigration And Immigration
Macroeconomics: Production
National Government Expenditures And Related Policies: General
Public Finance
Industrial Productivity
Expenditures, Public
Population And Demographics
Macroeconomics
Taxes
Income Tax
Production And Operations Management
Taxation, Subsidies, And Revenue: General
International Economics
Income And Capital Gains Taxes
Income Tax Systems
Exports And Imports
Revenue
Migration, Immigration & Emigration
Taxation
Corporate & Business Tax
United States
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Summary:This Selected Issues paper examines the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in the recent acceleration of labor productivity growth in the United States. The analysis reveals that the increase of total factor productivity (TFP) growth is a broad phenomenon that encompasses non-ICT producing sectors, consistent with the view that ICT is a "general purpose technology." The paper investigates whether the productivity boom may have dampened employment in recent years. It also assesses the contribution of immigrants to the United State economy
Physical Description:95 pages
ISBN:9781451839562

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