) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …

This paper aims to examine the productivity change of the Japanese economy using the data pertaining to the 47 … prefectures during the period 1981-2000. The decomposition analysis of the Hicks-Moorsteen-Bjurek productivity index is conducted … to explore the sources of the productivity change. In summary, technical change and efficiency change are two of the most …

U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today’s agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms … the United States towards agriculturally important middle-income countries, especially China, India and Brazil. U …

-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …

We study how innovation and technology diffusion interact to endogenously determine the shape of the productivity …

empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity …

worked in agriculture. Barely anyone did by 2000. What caused the rapid demise of agriculture in the economy? The analysis …