develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses …

regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that educational achievement strongly predicts economic growth across U …

capital on GDP per capita, and second, a permanent increase in migration ows has a positive effect on productivity growth …

is found that patents ought to be weaker, the more intense competition, the higher R&D productivity, and the more …

, rapidly narrowed the productivity gap with advanced economies. In contrast, in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent … States, which embarked on reforms later and contented with less depth, the productivity gap remains substantial. While the …

, rapidly narrowed the productivity gap with advanced economies. In contrast, in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent … States, which embarked on reforms later and contented with less depth, the productivity gap remains substantial. While the …

suggests that a shortfall in productivity-enhancing investments temporarily slows technological progress, creating a gap … the Global Financial Crisis, I show that tight credit reduced investments in productivity-enhancement, and significantly ….2% higher today if productivity-enhancing investment intensity had remained at its pre-crisis level …

's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …