data indicate no difference between the relative wage and relative productivity of black workers. Finally, with the … exception of managerial and professional occupations, women are paid about 25-35% less than men, but estimated productivity …

This paper examines trends in computer usage and the effect on productivity growth for a sample of federal government … Computer Productivity Paradox as it applies to the public sector. Computers do not appear to be responsible for the … disappointing productivity performance of the service sector. Although the magnitude of our estimated elasticity suggests that the …

productivity. We investigate these phenomena further by examining the relationship between plant-level productivity and firm …-level R&D. We find that (1) the productivity-enhancing effects of parent firm R&D are diminished by geographic distance from … the research lab and `technological' distance between the product-field focus of the R&D and the plants; (2) productivity …

Not only has U.S. productivity been poor by international standards but it is highly heterogeneous at the disaggregated … services, apparel retailing has done well while food retailing has done badly; railroad productivity has accelerated while … airline productivity has decelerated. This dispersion of performance argues against a single over-arching explanation of the …

sources of the growth of output, labor productivity, and total factor productivity. The results show that resource …

A comparative study of the contribution of R&D to firm-level productivity in French and United States manufacturing … control for both sources of estimation bias, and we find 1) overall, the contribution of R&D to sales productivity growth …

Explanations of procyclical productivity play a key role in a variety of business-cycle models. Most of these models … aggregate productivity changes into several terms, each of which has an economic interpretation. However, many of these terms …