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 …

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 …