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According to unpublished data compiled by BLS, productivity in the construction industry reached a peak in 1968 and … this productivity decline between 1968 and 1978 by estimating a production function to assign weights to various factors … responsible for productivity change and deriving a new price deflator for construction which does not rely on labor or material …
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The present study analyzes the "productivity slowdown" of the 1970s. The study also develops a new data set … -- industrial data available back to 1948 -- as well as a new set of tools for decomposing changes in productivity growth. The major … result of this study is that the productivity slowdown of the 1970s has survived three decades of scrutiny, conceptual …
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regulation, rather than changes in productivity and trade, account for most of the emissions reductions …
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-run impact on investment in new and emerging technology firms. Our findings indicate negative post-GDPR effects on EU ventures …
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white collar hours account for most of the reduction in aggregate labor productivity associated with increases in high …
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We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its … bias towards skilled occupations. We use a novel measure of the propensity of a firm to engage in technology investment and … "techies". We develop a methodology for estimating firm level productivity that allows us to measure both Hicks-neutral and …
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While there is general agreement that technology differences must figure prominently in any successful account of the cross-country income variation, not much is known on the source of these technology differences. This paper examines cross-country income differences in terms of factor...
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We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been …
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This paper presents estimates of the productivity and factor bias effects of interindustry R&D spillovers for five high …
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