Information Technology, Productivity, and Asset Ownership: Evidence from Taxicab Fleets

Information Technology, Productivity, and Asset Ownership: Evidence from Taxicab Fleets

We develop a simple model that links the adoption of a productivity-enhancing technology to increased vertical integration and a less skilled workforce. We test the model’s key prediction using novel microdata on vehicle ownership patterns from the Economic Census during a period when computerized dispatching systems were first adopted by taxicab firms. Controlling for time-invariant firm-speci...

Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity: Task Level Evidence

Past research has typically looked at fairly aggregate data on the relationship between IT and business value. In an effort to reveal the fine-grained relationships between IT use, information flows, and individual information-worker productivity, we study task level practices of information workers at a midsize executive recruiting firm. We analyze (1) detailed accounting data on revenues, com...

Land Ownership Transfer and Productivity: Evidence from Taiwan

Previous studies of tenancy and land reform programs suggest that these programs substantially increased agricultural productivity. However, these studies are limited to sharecropping environments. This paper investigates the productivity effect of the 1953 land ownership transfer program in Taiwan, where fixed-rental contracts predominated. This program transferred 27% of the paddy land to inc...

Asset ownership along gender lines: evidence from Thailand

The Effect of Firm's Use from Information Technology (IT) on Total Productivity

Abstract O ur basic aim in this paper concerns the question that if overusing the Information Technology by service and manufacturing firms can increase the total productivity resulting from this kind of technology regarding the Iran's economic structure and conditions. For this purpose, we primarily evaluate the productivity resulting from the rate of firms' use of IT for...