The acceleration of productivity since 1995 has prompted a debate over whether the economy's underlying growth rate … identify variables other than productivity - namely consumption and labor compensation - to help estimate trend productivity … direction. In addition, we find that productivity data alone provide insufficient evidence of regime changes; corroborating …

which better job matching of college-educated workers increases individual-level wages and thereby contributes to the urban … wage premium. While we find that college graduates with better job matches do indeed earn higher wages on average, the … contribution of such job matching to aggregate urban productivity appears to be relatively modest. …