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This paper provides an overview of recent trends in the U.S. basic industries. It first documents the dramatic fall in their shares of domestic employment and global production. It then considers explanations for these industries' relative -- and, in some instances, absolute -- decline. Those...
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In a general equilibrium product-cycle model, lower trade barriers increase Southern purchasing power, which lifts long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation,...
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United States relative to Japan. High productivity growth in the traded sector of the Japanese economy results in a …
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the capital stock, and the increase of multifactor productivity. I calculate a likely growth rate of 2.6 percent a year …
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rates of total factor productivity in distinct consumption- and investment-goods-producing technologies. This model … attributes most of the productivity slowdown of the 1970s to the consumption-goods sector; it suggests that a slowdown in the …
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1990s, provided that variations in population growth, depreciation rates, total factor productivity, and taxes are …. We use the theory to compare current accounting measures for labor productivity and investment with the corresponding … understate the boom in productivity and investment …
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We argue that unmeasured investments in intangible organizational capital associated with the role of information and communications technology (ICT) as a general purpose technology' can explain the divergent U.S. and U.K. TFP performance after 1995. GPT stories suggest that measured TFP should...
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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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The dismal decade of 2010-19 recorded the slowest productivity growth of any decade in U.S. history, only 1.1 percent … per year in the business sector. Yet the pandemic appears to have created a resurgence in productivity growth with a 4 ….1 percent rate achieved in the four quarters of 2020. This paper provides a unified framework that explains productivity growth …
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