decomposition of total factor productivity growth …

productivity increases by less, measured labor productivity growth falls compared to the middle period. However this fall reflects … productivity growth rates. Substantial variation in these growth rates remains within the 1929-1965 and 1965-1978 periods. Slow … quality-adjusted labor productivity growth during 1929-1948 is just offset by unusually rapid growth during 1948-1965; these …

The U.S. has been experiencing a slowdown in measured labor productivity growth since 2004. A number of commentators … challenges to this “mismeasurement hypothesis.” First, the productivity slowdown has occurred in dozens of countries, and its … output” resulting from the productivity growth slowdown. The largest—by some distance—is less than one-third of the …

The dismal decade of 2010-19 recorded the slowest productivity growth of any decade in U.S. history, only 1.1 percent … per year in the business sector. Yet the pandemic appears to have created a resurgence in productivity growth with a 4 ….1 percent rate achieved in the four quarters of 2020. This paper provides a unified framework that explains productivity growth …

countries matters for productivity, because a country that imports primarily from technological leaders receives more technology … trade patterns in determining technology flows that affect productivity by using industry level data for machinery goods … imports and productivity in eight OECD countries between 1970-91. First evidence that these countries benefit more from …

differences between national or regional productivity growth rates, when there are constant static returns to scale in production … account for permanent international productivity growth differentials. An alternative mechanism is the nontradedness of an …

The role of agricultural productivity in economic development is addressed in a two-sector model of endogenous growth … predicts a positive link between agricultural productivity and economic growth and thus provides a formalization of the …

standard productivity measures. TFPQ performs poorly because of variation in product specifications across firms. Controlling … for specifications aligns TFPQ with lab benchmarks. We also collect quality metrics to construct quality productivity (the …-dimensional productivity, or capability. As quality productivity is negatively correlated with TFPQ, TFPR may perform better at capturing …