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Information technology and the US productivity revival : what do the industry data say?

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A strategy for the 2011 economic recovery

Tracy, Joseph S. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2011

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Markov switching in disaggregate unemployment rates

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Why did the average duration of unemployment become so much longer?

Mukoyama, Toshihiko (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

"This paper examines the causes of the observed increase in the average duration of unemployment over the past thirty … in the generosity and coverage of unemployment insurance. We find that changes in the composition of the labor force and … institutional changes can only partially account for the longer duration of unemployment. We construct a job search model and …

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What's driving the new economy? The benefits of workplace innovation

Black, Sandra E.; Lynch, Lisa M. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2001

Using a unique nationally representative sample of U.S. establishments surveyed in both 1993 and 1996, we examine the relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. Using both cross-sectional and longitudinal data, we find evidence that high-performance...

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Skilled labor-augmenting technical progress in U.S. manufacturing

Kahn, James A.; Lim, Jong-Soo - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1998

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...

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Productivity: what is it and why do we care about it?

Steindel, Charles; Stiroh, Kevin - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2001

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....

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Productivity and the density of human capital

Abel, Jaison R.; Dey, Ishita; Gabe, Todd M. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2010

We estimate a model of urban productivity in which the agglomeration effect of density is enhanced by a metropolitan area's stock of human capital. Estimation accounts for potential biases due to the endogeneity of density and industrial composition effects. Using new information on output per...

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