Since 1995, growth in productivity in the United States appears to have accelerated dramatically. In this paper, we … cause conventionally measured growth in real output and productivity to be overstated. Building on the GDP function approach … year, or about 20%, of the 1995-2006 apparent increase in productivity growth for the U.S. economy. Bias in the price …

care productivity, we analyze longitudinal data on the medical expenditures and health outcomes of the vast majority of …-profit hospitals have important spillover benefits for medical productivity …

This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of service-producing firms in the … productivity of the firm as well as its export behavior. The first effect can be understood as the re-assignment of offshore … productive tasks to immigrant workers. The second can be seen as a productivity or cost cutting effect due to immigration, and …

firms and reductions in earnings per worker. Productivity gains arise mainly from an accelerated exit of less productive …

We examine the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on productivity in the context of taxi drivers. The AI we study … improves drivers' productivity by shortening the cruising time, and such gain is accrued only to low-skilled drivers, narrowing … the productivity gap between high- and low-skilled drivers by 14%. The result indicates that AI's impact on human labor is …

purpose of this work is to explore the evolution of gains in agricultural productivity in the two countries during the post …

In this paper we calculate and analyze the automobile industries cost and productivity experience during the 1970 's in … factor productivity (TFP) gross. This is achieved through a novel application of the Viner-Wng envelope theorem, which allows … correct for this source of productivity change would have led to a 31% under estimate of long-run TFP growth in Canada arid a …

This study uses state-level variation in labor productivity levels at twenty-year intervals between 1880 and 1980 to … differences in state productivity levels: states with navigable waterways, a large minerals endowment, and no slaves in 1860, on … average, had higher labor productivity levels throughout the sample period. However, we find little support for two other …

Measures of productivity growth typically include in the Productivity "residual" the impacts of subequilibrium from ….S.,, Japanese and Canadian manufacturing sectors, using an econometric model that allows explicit incorporation and measurement of … productivity growth can be attributed to production characteristics other than technical change, particularly scale economies …