This paper reviews research that uses longitudinal microdata to document productivity movements and to examine factors … behind productivity growth. The research explores the dispersion of productivity across firms and establishments, the … persistence of productivity differentials, the consequences of entry and exit, and the contribution of resource reallocation …

endogenously with technological change. If technology changes rapidly during the process of development, learning fosters the …

of technology is embodied in the capital stock. Classic papers from the late 1950's and 1960's show that non …-optimization models display the same asymptotic growth rates whether technology is embodied (vintage capital) or disembodied. This paper …

This paper investigates the response of hours worked to a permanent technology shock. Based on annual data from Canada …, we argue that hours worked rise after a positive technology shock. We obtain a similar result using annual data from the … United States. These results contradict a large literature that claims that a positive technology shock causes hours worked …

and input choices along with histories on their vintages of equipment investment. Our estimates range between 8 and 17 … than is conventionally accepted with some important implications. First, the role of investment-specific technological …

Aggregate productivity and aggregate technology are meaningful but distinct concepts. We show that a slightly …-modified Solow productivity residual measures changes in economic welfare, even when productivity and technology differ because of …-technological gaps between productivity and technology, gaps reflecting imperfections and frictions in output and factor markets …

Most growth models assume capital is homogeneous with regard to technology. This contradicts intuition and empirical … evidence that the majority of technology is embodied in the capital stock. Berger (2001) showed that neoclassical vintage … capital (embodied technology) and non-vintage capital (disembodied technology) models have different convergence rates …

This paper introduces a new data set for the analysis of productivity in U.S. manufacturing. It consists of data on … technological change that is embodied in equipment capital. The estimates imply a larger role of equipment investment and embodied …

We construct a measure of aggregate technology change, controlling for imperfect competition, varying utilization of … capital and labor, and aggregation effects. On impact, when technology improves, input use falls sharply, and output may fall … frictionless dynamic general equilibrium models, which generally predict that technology improvements are expansionary, with inputs …

of a technology shock has become widely utilized. In this paper, we investigate its reliability through Monte Carlo … impact of a technology shock on macroeconomic variables, and a corresponding level of uncertainty about the contribution of … technology shocks to the business cycle. …