.S. aggregate labor productivity, and 2) whether the same set of forces account for the slowdown of sectoral productivity growth as … well. We specify a model which relates measured labor productivity growth to capital/labor ratio, level and rate of change … aggregate data for the period 1949-1978.The results of the estimation suggest that the pattern of aggregate productivity growth …

) 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 …

monopoly power. In this economy, measures of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in terms of quantities (the primal) and …

leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity …

In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four …

Measured productivity growth increased substantially during the second half of the 1990s. This paper examines whether … productivity growth does appear to arise from an increase in technological change. Cyclical utilization raised measured … productivity growth relative to technology growth in the first part of the expansion, but lowered it subsequently. Factor …

sustained growth. This transition is inevitable given positive rates of total factor productivity growth. We use a standard …

In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in … excessively focused on physical capital investments determining productivity differentials, which consequently led to an …

persistence of productivity growth differentials between nations despite a common technology, constant returns to scale and … specification. The source of productivity (growth) differentials in our model is the existence of a non-traded capital good ('human … consider the influence on productivity growth differentials of private thrift, public debt, the taxation of capital and savings …