The Role of Computers & Scientific & Technical Information in Comparative Economic Development

这项研究继续调查计算机和信息在生产力增长中的作用。这些研究包括关于战后信息活动增长的来源、基于计算机的技术、职业组合和生产率增长、以及各国之间的信息流动、贸易和生产力趋同的工作。这项工作部分依赖于调查人员过去的工作收集的大量数据库，部分来自美国政府经济分析局的收集和其他现有的数据集。这项关于增长来源的研究提出，信息服务业就业人数的相对增加在多大程度上代表着劳动力从制造业重新部署，因为在制造业，生产率的提高降低了对劳动力的需求。这项关于职业构成的研究探索了计算机技术是否导致了劳动力中教育水平和技术专长的提高，还是一直在降低技能。关于贸易的研究探讨了信息传递和技术传播在各国经济发展中的作用。

This research continues the investigators inquiries into the role of computers and information in productivity growth. The studies include work on the sources of postwar growth of information activity, on computer-based technology,occupational mix and productivity growth, and information flows, trade and productivity convergence among nations.The work relies on extensive data bases collected, in part, by the investigators' past work, and in part from collections at the U.S. Government Bureau of Economic Analysis and other extant data sets. The research on sources of growth asks to what extent the relative rise in employment in information services represents a redeployment of the labor force away from manufacturing where productivity increases have reduced the demand for labor. The study on occupational mix explores whether computer technology has resulted in an increased level of education and technical expertise in the labor force or has been de-skilling. The study on trade explores the role of information transmission and technology diffusion on economic development of nations.