work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

productivity, but this effect was stronger in the areas in which railways were already built. Moreover, railways helped industrial …

pandemic wave) was associated with declines in consumption (-1.9%), investment (-1.2%), output (-2.4%), and productivity (-1 …

endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are shaped … "residual" productivity required to explain the observed per-capita income differences by more than one half. …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … productivity, to a Marxian zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …