combination of a drop in total factor productivity (TFP) during 1990-92 and of increases in taxes on labor and consumption and …

In this paper, we make a first attempt to explore the relationship between computer use and productivity in French … level in the years 1987, 1991 and 1993, with information on firm productivity, capital intensity and average wage available … evidence that the computer impacts on productivity are indeed positive and that the returns to the firm should at least be in …

center of the analysis: productivity shocks, shocks to labor input, and tax policy shocks. While our approach is in line with …

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 …

planner who has partial knowledge of population preferences and the productivity of spending. This is a problem of decision … making under ambiguity. Focusing on income-tax financed public spending for infrastructure that aims to enhance productivity … preferences and the productivity of public spending …

Aggregate data show a large and decades-long decline in construction sector productivity. This decline in such a large … sector has had a material effect on secular productivity growth for the economy as a whole. Prior work has focused on the … role of potential measurement problems in construction, particularly output deflators in the measurement of productivity …

An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …