productivity growth in the mid-1990s. This paper traces the evolution of productivity estimates to document how and when this … of the late 1990s that this investment and underlying productivity increases in the IT-producing sectors were identified … that private sector productivity growth will average around 2.5 percent per year for the next decade, a pace that is only …

This paper examines the link between information technology (IT) and the U.S. productivity revival in the late 1990s …. Industry-level data show a broad productivity resurgence that reflects both the production and the use of IT. The most IT …-intensive industries experienced significantly larger productivity gains than other industries and a wide variety of econometric tests show …

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 …