United States, I find no econometric evidence that computer investment is positively linked to TFP growth (over and above its … is positively related to industry productivity growth. The effects are very modest -- adding at most 0.07 percentage … points to annual labor productivity growth …

, especially efforts to raise the rate of investment. Recent studies of economic growth have raised a debate over the role played … by the investment rate in the long-run performance of the economy. Evidence from the states suggests that the effects of … indicate a substantial role for human capital accumulation in raising productivity, in contrast to the neoclassical focus on …

We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications …. Coupled with the fact that within-industry productivity gaps are enormous, this suggests that convergence will take a long … higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater total factor productivity gains. These (relatively) high rates of …

and investment, we are able to capture many of the key empirical properties of Germany and Japan's postwar transitions …, including persistently high but declining rates of labor and total-factor productivity growth, a U-shaped response of the … capital-output ratio, rising rates of investment and employment, and moderate rates of return to capital …

leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity …Technological diffusion implies a form of 'conditional convergence' as lagging countries catch up with technological …

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

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 …

overall productivity level of the economy. A comprehensive income tax, applying to both labour income and capital income … productivity, the adverse effect of income taxation on human capital investments is significantly magnified …