firm survey from the 1840s, we shed light on the mechanism: upper-tail knowledge raised productivity in innovative … industrial technology …

innovation will be required to preserve past productivity gains in the face of climate change, coevolving pests and diseases, and … changing technological regulations—let alone increase productivity. Great potential exists for innovation in crop and livestock …U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …

leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity …

-up mechanism through capital accumulation where technology is embodied in new capital goods. Using a putty-clay model of production …, including persistently high but declining rates of labor and total-factor productivity growth, a U-shaped response of the …

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …

We measure the impact of a drastic new technology for producing steel - the minimill - on the aggregate productivity of … industry's productivity is linked to this new technology, and operates through two distinct mechanisms. First, minimills … displaced the older technology, called vertically integrated production, and this reallocation of output was responsible for a …

. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological …

We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater total factor productivity gains. These (relatively) high rates of … efficiently. The other margin (within industry) reflects capital deepening and technology catch-up at the industry level. In …

Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of … developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps, and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to … high-productivity activities are a key driver of development. Our results show that since 1990 structural change has been …