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Aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. has slowed down since the 2000s. We quantify the importance of differential … productivity growth across occupations and across industries, and the rise of computers since the 1980s, for the productivity … productivity growth, reducing their contributions toward aggregate productivity growth, resulting in its slowdown. We find that …
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attempt to raise their productivity to the level required to gain employment. Second, employers faced with an inability to …
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significantly correlated with transfer productivity …
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. Combining these expressions with publicly available data on salary, job titles, department affiliation, research productivity … preferences for unionization at research universities. We find that faculty with higher pay and greater research productivity are … accounting for pay and productivity, faculty in fields documented elsewhere to have more politically liberal participants are …
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frontier production function framework is used to assess the relative productivity of 113 university TTOs. Our field research … variation in TTO efficiency. Relative productivity may also depend on organizational practices in university management of …
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: the reciprocal of the terms of trade. Cast this way, a change in the terms of trade acts as a productivity shock. Or does … then generalizing, we show that changes in the terms of trade have no first-order effect on productivity when output is …
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) 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 …
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Between 1800 and 1860, the United States became the preeminent world supplier of cotton as output increased sixty-fold. Technological changes, including the introduction of improved cotton varieties, contributed significantly to this growth. Measured output per worker in the cotton sector rose...
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We construct a model of international trade and multinational production (MP) to examine the impact of globalization on the skill premium in skill-abundant and skill-scarce countries. The key mechanisms in our framework arise from the interaction between three elements: cross-country differences...
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In the aftermath of World War II, the world's economies exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that also saw an acceleration in the speed of adoption of new technologies....
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