) 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 …

We extend the conventional neoclassical production and growth framework, with its emphasis on total factor productivity …

In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four …

sustained growth. This transition is inevitable given positive rates of total factor productivity growth. We use a standard …

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

In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in … excessively focused on physical capital investments determining productivity differentials, which consequently led to an …

.S. aggregate labor productivity, and 2) whether the same set of forces account for the slowdown of sectoral productivity growth as … well. We specify a model which relates measured labor productivity growth to capital/labor ratio, level and rate of change … aggregate data for the period 1949-1978.The results of the estimation suggest that the pattern of aggregate productivity growth …