7 Data, Intangible Capital, and Productivity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. National Bureau of Economic Research v
3. Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the NBER vi
4. Contents vii
5. Prefatory Note ix
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Automation and the Workforce. A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey 13
8. 2 Similarities and Differences in the Adoption of General Purpose Technologies 57
9. 3 Firm Investments in Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Changes in Workforce Composition 75
10. 4 The Strange and Awful Path of Productivity in the US Construction Sector 119
11. 5 Digital Concrete. Productivity in Infrastructure Construction 139
12. 6 After Redefinition TFP Accounting 169
13. 7 Data, Intangible Capital, and Productivity 193
14. 8 Valuing the US Data Economy Using Machine Learning and Online Job Postings 245
15. 9 An Occupation and Asset-Driven Approach to Capital Utilization Adjustment in Productivity Statistics 285
16. 10 Opening the Black Box. Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion 323
17. Author Index 361
18. Subject Index 367