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

capital on private sector output and productivity growth in Sweden. We do this by specifying and implementing empirically a …

This paper provides technical documentation to accompany the NBER manufacturing productivity (MP) database. The … estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth for each industry. The paper further discusses alternate methods of …

dynamic productivity-based models are used to motivate the empirical exercise. The candidate determinants include productivity … sectoral productivity differentials is estimated with greater precision as long as homogeneity of parameters is imposed upon … most empirically successful model of the real exchange rate includes sectoral productivity measures in the long run …

that average productivity rises, that the firm will attract a more able work force and that the variance in output across … structures between 1994 and 1995. All theoretical predictions are borne out. In the firm examined, the productivity effects are … worker-specific increase in productivity is passed on to workers in the form of higher wages …

This paper presents the results of a study of productivity growth and R&D in the 1970s using data on narrowly defined … the recent past. The results suggest a significant relationship between R&D and the growth of productivity; in versions … using total factor productivity as the dependent variable, the estimated rate of return to R&D investment is about 20 …

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 …