The level of productivity doubled in the U.S. nonfarm business sector between 1970 and 2006. Wages, or more accurately … adjusted for inflation in the same way as the nominal output measure that is used to calculate productivity …

) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …

and labor productivity are all linked to factor endowments, to one where (endogenous) productivity change embedded in … Spain, a country which had relatively poor productivity growth in agriculture and low living standards prior to 1800, was a … productivity after 1898 …

leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity …

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 …

rate spread, and non-performing loans. A TFP decomposition finds that most of the productivity gains are captured by a …

We study the productivity-pay relationship in the United States and Canada along two dimensions. The first is … divergence: the degree to which the levels of productivity and pay have diverged. The second is delinkage: the degree to which … incremental increases in the rate of productivity growth translate into incremental increases in the rate of growth of pay …