This paper provides empirical evidence on the response of labor productivity to the arrival of new inventions. The … analysis shows that labor productivity may temporarily fall below trend after technological progress. However, the effects on … productivity differ between the pre- and post-World War II periods. The pre-war period shows evidence of a productivity slowdown as …

output. We find that public capital accounts for about half of the post-1973 productivity slowdown, but only plays a minor … role in the partial recovery of labor productivity growth since the mid 1980s. The largest contribution to that (partial …

suggested that these differences should be driven by cross-country differences in total factor productivity (TFP). This paper … discusses various measures of productivity and its determinants for the OECD countries from different dimensions: (i) the … measurement perspective; (ii) evidence on the evolution of productivity levels across OECD countries; and (iii) a critical review …

result is in line with similar findings for the U.S. and the U.K. Furthermore, the growth in GDP and labor productivity may …

Total factor productivity (TFP) of 14 manufacturing sectors in France has kept up with that of the United States during … indicate that sectors further behind the technological frontier experience faster productivity growth and that spending on …

innovate in equilibrium, in an attempt to force followers out of the innovation game. Second, policies (such as patents) that …