The present study is the third in a series of three papers devoted to issues in the measurement of productivity and … productivity growth. The major findings are as follows. First, this study shows that the new data set used here, which develops … useful supplement to existing data sets. Second, there has clearly been a rebound in labor-productivity growth in recent …

During the four years 1995-99 U. S. productivity growth experienced a strong revival and achieved growth rates … transport, motion pictures, radio, indoor plumbing, and made the golden age of productivity growth possible. This paper raises … doubts about the validity of this comparison with the Great Inventions of the past. It dissects the recent productivity …

After fifty years of catching up to the United States level of productivity, since 1995 Europe has been falling behind … growth shortfall caused the level of European productivity to fall back from 94 percent of the United States level to 85 … retailing formats that have created many of the productivity gains in the United States. For many decades, the United States and …

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 …

particular, there has been a substantial acceleration in trend total factor productivity growth. Most of this acceleration … evidence of an acceleration of productivity in service industries that are major purchasers of information technology such as …

relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. We match plant level practices with plant … level productivity and wage outcomes and estimate production functions and wage equation using both cross sectional and … productivity of establishments. We find that firms that re-engineer their workplaces to incorporate more high performance practices …

revolution began, however, several decades passed before measured productivity growth increased. This delay is paradoxical from …

expansion, a stock market boom, a financing boom for new firms and productivity gains. In this paper, we propose an … production. We show that the mere prospect of high future productivity growth can generate sizable gains in current productivity …

This study advances the prior literature concerning the impact of information technology on productivity in academe in …