Technology, productivity and Job creation / Organisation For Economic Co-Operation and Development.

Volumen 1. Highlights -- Abstract, 7 -- Technology: at the heart of economic growth, 7 -- Productivity, new jobs and new skills, 7 -- New growth opportunities and regulatory reform, 8 -- Challenges to firms and work organization, 8 -- The need for a new coherent policy framework, 8 -- Executive summary, 11 -- 1. Introduction, 11 -- 2. The evolving nature of technical change, 18 -- 3. Productivity and structural change, 13 -- 4. Technology and employment, 17 -- 5. New challenges for firms, 20 -- 6. Policy implications and recommendations, 21 -- A. Enhancing productivity through improved creation, access and distribution of knowledge, 23 -- B. Promoting organisational change to achieve more effective knowledge management, 24 -- C. Co-ordinating technological and human resource development, 24 -- D. Stimulating new demand, 24 -- E. Realising the innovative and job-creating potential of SMEs, 25.

Volumen 2. Analytical report -- Chapter I. Lobs of the past and jobs of the future; On the changing nature of technology and employment, 9 -- Chapter 2. Technology, productivity and growth, 25 -- Chapter 3. Technology and jobs in industry and services, 51 -- Chapter 4. Technology, wages and skills, 79 -- Chapter 5. New services and job creation: Information infrastructures and multimedia services, 103 -- Chapter 6. Technology and the changing nature of jobs: Organisational change and human resources, 129 -- Chapter 7. Technology and the changing nature of the firm: The role of small and medium-sized enterprises, 177 -- Chapter 8. Policy implications, 201 -- Annex Tables, 231 -- Notes, 237 -- Bibliography, 243.