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surprising miracle occurred the leaver nations are alleged to have enjoyed a burst of real growth and a decline in unemployment … pronounced if it were not for quiescent wage rates, which the paper attributes to high unemployment. The absence of any …
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Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth slowdown was largely offset by faster growth in...
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unemployment, and relatively greater income equality, in contrast to the opposite path being pursued by the United States. While … structural shocks may initially create a positive tradeoff between productivity and unemployment, they set in motion a dynamic … theoretical contributions of this paper are to show how a productivity-unemployment tradeoff might emerge and how it might …
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This paper studies the dynamic behavior of changes in productivity, wages, and prices. Results are based on a new data set that allows a consistent analysis of the aggregate economy, the manufacturing sector, and the nonmanufacturing sector. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an...
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By merging KLEMS data sets and aggregating over the ten largest Western European nations (EU-10), we are able to compare and contrast productivity growth up through 2015 starting from 1950 in the U.S. and from 1972 in the EU-10. Data are provided at the aggregate level, as well as for 16...
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We examine the role of the ICT revolution in driving productivity growth behavior for the United States and an aggregate of ten Western European nations (the EU-10) from 1977 to 2015. We find that the standard growth accounting approach is deficient when it separates sources of growth between...
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years, reflecting long vacations, high unemployment, and low labor force participation, and only about one-third of the …
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After fifty years of catching up to the United States level of productivity, since 1995 Europe has been falling behind. The growth rate in output per hour over 1995-2003 in Europe was just half that in the United States, and this annual growth shortfall caused the level of European productivity...
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flexibility of labor markets, they are likely to improve the short-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff, providing an incentive for … policymakers to expand aggregate demand. Also, policymakers' promises that they will encourage a decline in unemployment in … continued deceleration of inflation in the depreciating countries provides evidence that their natural unemployment rate has …
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This is a comprehensive study of measurement and substantive issues that arise in determining the rate of multi factor productivity (MFP) growth in the transportation industry over the postwar period, 1948-87. Official data on output and employment are provided by two government agencies and...
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