United States relative to Japan. High productivity growth in the traded sector of the Japanese economy results in a …

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 …

.S. agricultural productivity using 1940-1970 historical weather data (mean and variation) as the norm. We have four major findings … a state's productivity. Third, the impacts of THI load shock and Oury index shock variables (deviations from historical … norm fluctuations) on productivity are more robust than the level of THI and Oury index variables across specifications …

imputed data for at least one variable used to compute total factor productivity. The Bureau primarily imputes for missing …

the process, the exact pace and timing of agricultural productivity change is still unresolved. The traditional view is … one of continued progress in which output and productivity increased steadily, accelerating over the period. The Civil War … that the period before the Civil War had the superior record and experienced particularly rapid productivity growth between …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of productivity growth in the U.S. and Japanese electrical machinery … industries in the postwar period. This industry has experienced rapid growth in output and productivity and high rates of capital … inputs as well as the determinants of productivity growth in the U.S. and Japanese electrical machinery industry. The …

our benchmark assumption that industry prices are independent of productivity. When we allow for the endogeneity of …

productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 14% of … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for imports-related spillovers, but it …

existence of agglomeration economies, which exist when productivity rises with density, but estimating the magnitude of those …