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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w17825 |
来源ID | Working Paper 17825 |
Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector | |
Emek Basker | |
发表日期 | 2012-02-09 |
出版年 | 2012 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Barcodes and barcode scanners transformed the grocery industry in the 1970s. I use store-level data from the 1972, 1977, and 1982 Census of Retail Trade, matched to data on store scanner installations, to estimate scanners' effect on labor productivity. I find that early scanners increased a store's labor productivity, on average, by approximately 4.5 percent in the first few years. The effect was larger in stores carrying more packaged products, consistent with the presence of network externalities. Short-run gains were small relative to fixed costs, suggesting that the impediment to widespread adoption of the new technology was profitability, not coordination problems. |
主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Industrial Organization ; Industry Studies ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w17825 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/575500 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Emek Basker. Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector. 2012. |
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