Economists, business analysts, and policymakers have all focused considerable attention on U.S. productivity growth in … recent years. This paper presents a broad overview of productivity--both labor and total factor--and discusses why it is such … an important topic. We begin with the official U.S. productivity statistics prepared by the U.S. Bureau of Labor …

productivity (TFP). In contrast, this paper finds large and persistent TFP differences across a group of industrialized countries … with country-specific technological differences, and industry-level scale economies with identical technology in each … country. The data support the constant returns/different technology hypothesis over the increasing returns/same technology …

relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. Using both cross-sectional and longitudinal … data, we find evidence that high-performance workplace practices are associated with both higher productivity and higher … and the productivity of establishments. We find that firms re-engineer their workplaces and incorporate` more high …

This paper examines the role of skilled labor in the growth of total factor productivity. We use panel data from … manufacturing industries to assess the extent to which productivity growth in yearly cross section is tied to industry shares of … skilled labor inputs. We find robust evidence that productivity growth was increasingly concentrated in high-skill industries …

economies. Our evidence covers major technology classes such as textile production, steel manufacture, communications …, information technology, transportation, and electricity for the period 1788-2001. We document the common patterns observed in the …

causes are changes in technology, international competition, and factor supplies. The relative importance of these causes in … competitive general equilibrium where goods prices, technology and factor supplies jointly determine outputs and factor prices. We … specify an empirical model which allows us to estimate the general equilibrium relationship between wages and technology …

Imports of goods that embody foreign technology raise a country's output directly as inputs into production and … quantifies spillovers from high-technology imports from developed countries to domestic imitation and innovation in both … innovation. High-technology imports, as well as quality-adjusted research and the size of the economy, positively affect both …

. Domestic imitation and innovation both appear to depend positively on high technology imports from developed countries … initial GDP levels, consistent with conditional convergence hypotheses. Interestingly, foreign technology from developed …

This paper examines the role of skilled labor in the growth of total factor productivity. We use panel data from … manufacturing industries within the United States to assess the extent to which productivity growth in yearly cross-sections of U …

evidence of technology transfers, productivity spillovers, wage effects, macroeconomic growth, and fiscal and tax concerns …