-factor productivity (MFP) growth for the United States since 1870. The wave-like pattern starts with slow MFP growth in the late 19th …, there is no solution to the post-1972 productivity slowdown, and in the new data MFP growth during 1972-96 proceeds at a … boosting productivity growth, followed by a reopening that contributed to the post-1972 productivity slowdown …

examine counterfactuals to assess the impact of various global shifts on productivity, plant entry and exit, and labor … productivity. Our model extends basic Ricardian theory to accommodate many countries, geographic barriers, and imperfect … explain basic facts about U.S. plants: (i) productivity dispersion, (ii) the productivity advantage of exporters, (iii) the …

west German per capita level, and convergence seems to have come to a halt at an overall labor productivity of only 55% of …

. Although we find that direct reforms improve medical productivity primarily by reducing malpractice claims rates and …

-producing country such as the U.S. is associated with a 0.15% lower level of productivity. Second, technological knowledge has become … more global over the sample period. As a determinant of productivity, foreign R&D has significantly gained in importance …

effect of spillovers on research productivity of firms exceeds the structural effect because it includes an active learning …

relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. We match plant level practices with plant … level productivity and wage outcomes and estimate production functions and wage equation using both cross sectional and … productivity of establishments. We find that firms that re-engineer their workplaces to incorporate more high performance practices …

Economists have long recognized that total factor productivity is an important factor in the process of economic growth … assumptions. Total factor productivity growth is estimated as a residual, using index number techniques. It is thus a measure of … than commission. A New Economy critique of productivity points to unmeasured gains in product quality, while an …

wages and productivity across establishments. The second is that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across … productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades, and (4) a substantial fraction of the rising … dispersion in wages and productivity is accounted for by increasing wage and productivity differentials across high and low …