improving production efficiency and product quality in both countries, but it matters more in China than in the US, especially …

-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 …

wages and productivity across establishments. The second is that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across … productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades, and (4) a substantial fraction of the rising … dispersion in wages and productivity is accounted for by increasing wage and productivity differentials across high and low …

service for all Americans ("universal access") would raise earnings-weighted labor productivity by an estimated 1.1% in the … would raise productivity, and it would promote greater economic and social resilience during future disasters that inhibit …

productivity growth, particularly in large relatively closed economies like the USA, will tend to raise middle class incomes. At …We study the productivity-pay relationship in the United States and Canada along two dimensions. The first is … divergence: the degree to which the levels of productivity and pay have diverged. The second is delinkage: the degree to which …