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change. This provides a bridge between the productivity literature and the welfare-related literature that tends to reason in … terms of net product functions: although the relevant income measure is net of depreciation, productivity is measured based … on gross output. We show that net product, net income, net expenditure and productivity change are complements, not …
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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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economic growth into capital-deepening and productivity components, to a more complex account of the growth process. In the … more complex account, capital and productivity interact, both are endogenous, and quality change in inputs and output … matters. New developments in micro-level productivity analysis are also reviewed, and the long-standing question of net versus …
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largely reflect differences in countries' total factor productivity. We argue that this view has powerful implications for … patterns of capital flows: everything else equal, countries with faster productivity growth should invest more, and attract …
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: the reciprocal of the terms of trade. Cast this way, a change in the terms of trade acts as a productivity shock. Or does … then generalizing, we show that changes in the terms of trade have no first-order effect on productivity when output is …
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The question we address in this paper is why the Japanese miracle didn't take place until after World War II. For much of the pre-WWII period, Japan's real GNP per worker was not much more than a third of that of the U.S., with falling capital intensity. We argue that its major cause is a...
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Starting from the same level of productivity and per-capita income as the United States in the mid-nineteenth century … productivity has almost converged, its income per person has leveled off at about three-quarters of America's. How could Europe be …
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We survey and assess the literature on the positive and negative effects of ethnic diversity on economic policies and outcomes. Our focus is on both focus both cities in developed countries (the US) and villages in developing countries. We also consider the endogenous formation of political...
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In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four …
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to underestimate of the rates of growth of real GDP, real personal income, and productivity. That underestimation is …This paper is not about the recent slowdown in measured productivity but that subject is discussed briefly …
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