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the measurement of capital services and connects it to the Jorgenson-Griliches (1967) paper on the "explanation of … productivity change." It reviews the criticisms made against that paper, especially the use of a utilization adjustment, and fin … slowdown in the growth of total factor productivity as implying, necessarily, a parallel slowdown in the technological …
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the capital stock, and the increase of multifactor productivity. I calculate a likely growth rate of 2.6 percent a year …
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We compute new estimates for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in the United States and in five European countries …
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Since 1995, growth in productivity in the United States appears to have accelerated dramatically. In this paper, we … cause conventionally measured growth in real output and productivity to be overstated. Building on the GDP function approach … year, or about 20%, of the 1995-2006 apparent increase in productivity growth for the U.S. economy. Bias in the price …
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In this paper we report results of an empirical assessment of the cost reducing impacts of recent dramatic increases in stocks of "high-tech" office and information technology equipment (0) using annual data from various two digit US manufacturing industries over the 1952-1986 time period. While...
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rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
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This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...
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We examine the role of the ICT revolution in driving productivity growth behavior for the United States and an …. Using industry-level data from EU KLEMS, we find that most of the 1995-2005 U.S. productivity growth revival was driven by … rather than providing a new permanent era of faster productivity growth. This joint transatlantic post-2005 slowdown is …
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wages and productivity across establishments. The second is that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across … productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades, and (4) a substantial fraction of the rising … dispersion in wages and productivity is accounted for by increasing wage and productivity differentials across high and low …
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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 …
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