) 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 …

This paper aims to examine the productivity change of the Japanese economy using the data pertaining to the 47 … prefectures during the period 1981-2000. The decomposition analysis of the Hicks-Moorsteen-Bjurek productivity index is conducted … to explore the sources of the productivity change. In summary, technical change and efficiency change are two of the most …

U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today's agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms … the United States towards agriculturally important middle-income countries, especially China, India and Brazil. U …

from agriculture to non-agriculture and from rural to urban areas. We combine rich household and individual-level panel … data from China and an equilibrium quantitative framework that features the sorting of workers across locations and … substantial negative effects on agricultural productivity and structural change, raising the share of households operating farms …

-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …

empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity …

We study how innovation and technology diffusion interact to endogenously determine the productivity distribution and … productivity distribution. With finite support, the aggregate growth rate cannot exceed the maximum growth rate of innovators …