following three facts: 1. Since the early 1970's there has been a slump in the advance of productivity. 2. The price of new … explanations are: 1. Productivity slowed down because the implementation of information technologies was both costly and slow. 2 …

productivity and the other decreasing transportation costs, and in which agglomeration economies lead to persistence in urban … locations. In countries that developed early, structural transformation due to rising agricultural productivity began at a time …

recent robust growth in Aggregate Labor Productivity (ALP) across twenty-five countries is due to lower barriers to input … reallocation. They find weak gains from measured reallocation and strong within-plant productivity gains. We show these findings … product of labor and changes in OL as a proxy for changes in plant-level productivity. We provide simple examples to show that …

productivity from being near cities (30 to 35 percent higher productivity for a county one standard deviation above average in …

Is public sector infrastructure a key determinant of productivity? Traditional, project-based analyses of benefits and …-based analyses of the links between private productivity and public infrastructure that imply large productivity effects from public … spending. The disparity in estimated returns is often attributed to geographic spillovers in productivity benefits that are not …