Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …

how this leads to an underestimation of productivity growth in the early years of a new GPT, and how later, when the … benefits of intangible investments are harvested, productivity growth will be overestimated. Our model generates a Productivity … J-Curve that can explain the productivity slowdowns often accompanying the advent of GPTs, as well as the increase in …

productivity growth has declined by half over the past decade, and real income has stagnated since the late 1990s for a majority of …