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

这项研究继续调查了计算机和信息在生产力增长中的作用。这些研究包括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、贸易和生产率趋同。这项工作依赖于广泛的数据库，这些数据库部分来自调查人员过去的工作，部分来自美国政府经济分析局（U.S. Government Bureau of Economic Analysis）和其他现存的数据集。对增长来源的研究提出了这样一个问题：在多大程度上，信息服务业就业的相对增长代表了劳动力从制造业的重新部署，而制造业的生产率提高降低了对劳动力的需求。对职业组合的研究探讨了计算机技术是否提高了劳动力的教育水平和技术专长，还是已经降低了技能。贸易研究探讨了信息传递和技术扩散在国家经济发展中的作用。

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.