This paper examines three questions motivated by previous research on semiconductors and productivity growth: Why did …

Productivity growth in the U.S. economy jumped during the second half of the 1990s, a resurgence that many analysts …, leading to a lively debate about the connection between IT and productivity and about the sustainability of the faster growth … acceleration in labor productivity after 1995 was driven largely by the greater use of IT capital goods and by the more rapid …