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values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …
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summarized to a first order by the current and expected future values of the Solow productivity residual in level and by the …
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employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill … and hours worked by natives. At the same time we find robust evidence that they increased total factor productivity, on … results are robust to controlling for several other determinants of productivity that may vary with geography such as R …
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The recent literature on local schooling externalities in the U.S. is rather mixed: positive external effects of average education levels are hardly to be found but, in contrast, positive externalities from the share of college graduates can often be identified. This paper proposes a simple...
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in a region or sector, it is their productivity advantage that determines the positive effect on domestic firms in … measuring total factor productivity (TFP) of firms and to different empirical specifications …
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We argue that unmeasured investments in intangible organizational capital associated with the role of information and communications technology (ICT) as a general purpose technology' can explain the divergent U.S. and U.K. TFP performance after 1995. GPT stories suggest that measured TFP should...
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Measured productivity growth increased substantially during the second half of the 1990s. This paper examines whether … productivity growth does appear to arise from an increase in technological change. Cyclical utilization raised measured … productivity growth relative to technology growth in the first part of the expansion, but lowered it subsequently. Factor …
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Productivity rises in booms and falls in recessions. There are four main explanations for this procyclical productivity … procyclical productivity as an essential feature of business cycles because each explanation has important implications for … utilization and resource reallocations are particularly important in explaining procyclical productivity. We also argue that the …
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In this paper, we derive and estimate relationships governing variable utilization of capital and labor for a firm solving a dynamic cost-minimization problem. Our method allows for (i) imperfect competition, (ii) increasing returns to scale, (iii) unobserved changes in utilization, (iv)...
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