regulation, rather than changes in productivity and trade, account for most of the emissions reductions …

The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the … descriptive analysis of mobility for the famine-era Irish sons indicates that more Catholic surnames and birth in Ireland were … decline in the observable human capital of famine-era Irish migrants compared to pre-famine Irish migrants and to other groups …

The present study analyzes the "productivity slowdown" of the 1970s. The study also develops a new data set … -- industrial data available back to 1948 -- as well as a new set of tools for decomposing changes in productivity growth. The major … result of this study is that the productivity slowdown of the 1970s has survived three decades of scrutiny, conceptual …

According to unpublished data compiled by BLS, productivity in the construction industry reached a peak in 1968 and … this productivity decline between 1968 and 1978 by estimating a production function to assign weights to various factors … responsible for productivity change and deriving a new price deflator for construction which does not rely on labor or material …

The U.S. has been experiencing a slowdown in measured labor productivity growth since 2004. A number of commentators … challenges to this “mismeasurement hypothesis.” First, the productivity slowdown has occurred in dozens of countries, and its … output” resulting from the productivity growth slowdown. The largest—by some distance—is less than one-third of the …

A statistical agency faces several challenges in building Productivity Accounts. What started out as a request for … simple ratios of output to employment has moved to a demand for multifactor (total factor) productivity measures that take … quality of outputs.The challenge that faces users of productivity measures is that many series often exist within statistical …

trade protection reduced growth rates of labor productivity and total factor productivity, while industrial policies, such … as tax incentives and subsidized credit, were not correlated with total factor productivity growth in the promoted … sectors. The evidence, thus, implies that less government intervention in trade is linked to higher productivity growth …