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-factor productivity (MFP) growth for the United States since 1870. The wave-like pattern starts with slow MFP growth in the late 19th …, there is no solution to the post-1972 productivity slowdown, and in the new data MFP growth during 1972-96 proceeds at a … boosting productivity growth, followed by a reopening that contributed to the post-1972 productivity slowdown …
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This paper studies the dynamic behavior of changes in productivity, wages, and prices. Results are based on a new data … gap indexes to be attributed to a failure of real wages to respond to the post-1972 productivity growth slowdown is … relatively minor. The paper's analysis of productivity change confirms the real-wage elasticity of labor input emphasized …
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This paper makes no contribution to an understanding of the secular slowdown in productivity, except to add a new … productivity in isolation. In addition to the phenomenon of short-run "increasing returns to labor" identified in previous studies …, it isolates an often overlooked but consistent tendency for productivity to perform poorly in the last stages of a …
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compare and contrast productivity growth up through 2015 starting from 1950 in the U.S. and from 1972 in the EU-10. Data are … the inventions that propelled U.S. productivity growth in the first half of the 20th century, and the next EU-10 stage for … 1972-95 as imitating the U.S. outcome for 1950-72. We show that both the pace of aggregate productivity growth during 1972 …
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We examine the role of the ICT revolution in driving productivity growth behavior for the United States and an …. Using industry-level data from EU KLEMS, we find that most of the 1995-2005 U.S. productivity growth revival was driven by … rather than providing a new permanent era of faster productivity growth. This joint transatlantic post-2005 slowdown is …
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Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995 …, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth … between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative tradeoff between productivity and employment …
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About the first question, my own recent research on apparel and rental housing indicates a substantial downward bias in the CPI over much of the twentieth century, diminishing in size after 1985. Incorporating these findings into the Boskin matrix would reduce its 0.6 percent annual upward bias...
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A basic tenet of economic science is that productivity growth is the source of growth in real income per capita. But … our results raise doubts by creating a direct link between macro productivity growth and the micro evolution of the income … distribution enjoyed a growth rate of real wage and salary income equal to or above the average rate of economy-wide productivity …
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Starting from the same level of productivity and per-capita income as the United States in the mid-nineteenth century … productivity has almost converged, its income per person has leveled off at about three-quarters of America's. How could Europe be …
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After fifty years of catching up to the United States level of productivity, since 1995 Europe has been falling behind … growth shortfall caused the level of European productivity to fall back from 94 percent of the United States level to 85 … retailing formats that have created many of the productivity gains in the United States. For many decades, the United States and …
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