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In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many firms this advantage remains elusive....
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decomposition of total factor productivity growth …
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adopted - take time to be reflected in aggregate productivity statistics. Before mechanization, cotton spinning was performed … plant productivity distribution of new technology adopters in mechanized cotton spinning. We find that this distribution was … initially highly dispersed. Over the subsequent decades, mechanized spinning experienced dramatic productivity growth that was …
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) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …
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This paper investigates changes in the output and productivity of research and development activities in Japanese …&D productivity at the firm-level suggest that there has been a slowdown in the growth of Japanese research productivity in the 1990s …
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sources of the growth of output, labor productivity, and total factor productivity. The results show that resource …
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Aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. has slowed down since the 2000s. We quantify the importance of differential … productivity growth across occupations and across industries, and the rise of computers since the 1980s, for the productivity … productivity growth, reducing their contributions toward aggregate productivity growth, resulting in its slowdown. We find that …
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rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
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This paper studies how gradualism affects the welfare gains from trade, technology, and reforms. When people face adjustment frictions, gradual shocks create less adverse distributional effects in the short run. We show that there are welfare gains from inducing a more gradual transition via...
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, distortions in the supply of non-traded inputs, and perverse incentives for informality creates a drag on productivity growth …
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