Download or read book Technology Use Training and Plant Specific Knowledge in Manufacturing Establishments written by John R. Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the factors influencing a firm's decision to train, using data taken from several recent Statistic Canada surveys that explore advanced technology use by Canadian manufacturing plants. Advanced technology adoption has been both rapid and pervasive, leading to concerns about whether technology use is associated with an increase or a decrease in workers' skills. Based on the data collected through two surveys, this paper examines the relationship between technology use and the skill level of workers. It does so by first reporting on the opinions of managers of Canadian manufacturing establishments, who indicate that technology use leads to skill increases. Second, this paper examines the relationship between a plant's decision to train and certain other characteristics of the plant, including its technology use. Third, it investigates the factors related to the location of training in order to determine whether the training done by plants imparts primarily generic skills or plant-specific skills. Finally, it reports on survey results that show plants that introduced new technologies had to increase their expenditures for training.
Download or read book L utilisation de la Technologie la Formation Et Les Connaissances Sp cifiques Dans Les tablissements de Fabrication written by Baldwin, John R. (John Russel) and published by Analytical Studies Branch, Statistics Canada. This book was released on 1995 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the factors influencing a firm's decision to train, using data taken from several recent Statistics Canada surveys that explore advanced technology use by Canadian manufacturing plants. Advanced technology adoption has been both rapid and pervasive, leading to concerns about whether technology use is associated with an increase or a decrease in workers' skills. Based on the data collected through two surveys, this paper examines the relationship between technology use and the skill level of workers. It does so by first reporting on the opinions of managers of Canadian manufacturing establishments, who indicate that technology use leads to skill increases. Second, this paper examines the relationship between a plant's decision to train and certain other characteristics of the plant, including its technology use. Third, it investigates the factors related to the location of training in order to determine whether the training done by plants imparts primarily generic skills or plant-specific skills. Finally, it reports on survey results that show plants that introduced new technologies had to increase their expenditures for training.
Download or read book Science Technology and Industry Outlook 2000 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study summarises key recent developments in science, technology and innovation across the OECD area. It covers trends, provides an overview of policy developments and emphasises the roles played by science and technology in recent economic growth.
Download or read book Science Technology and Industry Outlook 1998 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1998-10-09 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a discussion of recent trends and prospects in science, technology and industry, based on comparative indicators, such as output, investment and productivity, research and development (R&D), patent activity and innovation and knowledge flows.
Download or read book Understanding Economic Growth A Macro level Industry level and Firm level Perspective written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2004-03-26 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique tool providing facts, figures and analysis of economic growth in OECD countries. The analysis focuses on the growth patterns of OECD countries during the last decade and identifies the fundamental drivers of growth.
Download or read book ICT and Economic Growth Evidence from OECD countries industries and firms written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-07-28 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the impacts of ICT on business performance and the policies that can help seize its benefits.
Download or read book Transforming Enterprise written by William H. Dutton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How people are using information technology to reshape the way the world communicates, works, and learns--across organizational boundaries and through all sectors of society.
Download or read book Growth Capital and New Technologies written by Ronald Martin Albers and published by Fundacion BBVA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durante los años noventa, Estados Unidos conoció un resurgir del crecimiento económico. Aunque este fenómeno se explica en parte por razones de ciclo, existen otras de orden estructural e influencia a largo plazo, en particular el papel del capital asociado a las Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación (ICT, según sus siglas en inglés), y la producción de activos en este sector. El contraste entre la tasa de crecimiento de Estados Unidos y el avance mucho más modesto de la Unión Europea se ha atribuido, en ocasiones, al retraso del Viejo Continente en el uso y la producción de activos relacionados con las nuevas tecnologías. Esta obra analiza el crecimiento, la medición del capital y las nuevas tecnologías. Para ello, reúne las ponencias presentadas y debatidas, a finales de noviembre de 2002, en un seminario internacional organizado por la Fundación BBVA y el Instituto Valenciano de Estudios Económicos (Ivie) en Valencia. Todas las ponencias se han sometido a un proceso de revisión y actualización antes de ser incluidas en el volumen. Esta colección de trabajos pretende facilitar el conocimiento y la comprensión de los factores que subyacen al crecimiento económico y a la mejora de la productividad de los años noventa y, en particular, al papel desempeñado por las ICT.
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Download or read book Transition to the Knowledge Society written by University of British Columbia. Institute for European Studies and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text describes the implications of ICTs, their potential for increased productions, and their impact on jobs, skill development, wages, and income. The authors address issues of distribution and equity - particularly with respect to disparities involving class, gender, ethnicity, and age.
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