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In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four …
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change. This provides a bridge between the productivity literature and the welfare-related literature that tends to reason in … terms of net product functions: although the relevant income measure is net of depreciation, productivity is measured based … on gross output. We show that net product, net income, net expenditure and productivity change are complements, not …
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This paper offers a thesis as to why the US overtook the UK and other European countries in the 20th century in both aggregate and per-capita GDP, as a case study of recent models of endogenous growth where human capital is the quot;engine of growthquot;. The conjecture is that the ascendancy of...
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mortality below age forty generates productivity gains, which in turn may explain why the positive correlation between health …
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through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in … relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT capital as well as to upstream regulations, and two factor demand functions … finding that the impact of upstream regulations on total factor productivity can be sizeable, and they provide evidence that a …
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This paper investigates whether it is possible to entertain simultaneously two attractive views about US GDP. The first is that long term growth in US GDP is attributable to an empirically plausible specification of random technical progress. The second is that deviations of GDP from a fitted...
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economic growth into capital-deepening and productivity components, to a more complex account of the growth process. In the … more complex account, capital and productivity interact, both are endogenous, and quality change in inputs and output … matters. New developments in micro-level productivity analysis are also reviewed, and the long-standing question of net versus …
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to underestimate of the rates of growth of real GDP, real personal income, and productivity. That underestimation is … recent slowdown in measured productivity but that subject is discussed briefly …
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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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Starting from the same level of productivity and per-capita income as the United States in the mid-nineteenth century … productivity has almost converged, its income per person has leveled off at about three-quarters of America's. How could Europe be …
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