decomposition of total factor productivity growth …

establishments. The effect of these changes on establishment productivity, however, is unclear. Existing evidence is based on a … unions on productivity is examined in the present paper using establishment level data from the U.S. cement industry. The … supported in time series data, where a comparison of productivity before and after unionization reveals a positive union effect …

We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the … productivity, research, and patenting, we simulate the growth of the five countries, given initial productivity levels in 1950 and … the magnitude of the slowdown in German, French, and Japanese productivity growth and the relative constancy of U.K. and U …

west German per capita level, and convergence seems to have come to a halt at an overall labor productivity of only 55% of …

In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in … excessively focused on physical capital investments determining productivity differentials, which consequently led to an …

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 …

, including persistently high but declining rates of labor and total-factor productivity growth, a U-shaped response of the …

the productivity growth slowdowns experienced by most industrialized countries during that decade.The contention is that … measured output. Thus conventional productivity measures will be biased downward when such regulations are imposed. In this …" capital and then use this framework to devleop an adjustment to nonparametric measures of productivity growth, purging them of …

productivity and output growth, which is countercyclical. Investment dispersion is more procyclical in the goods-producing sectors …

Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …