The level of productivity doubled in the U.S. nonfarm business sector between 1970 and 2006. Wages, or more accurately … adjusted for inflation in the same way as the nominal output measure that is used to calculate productivity. Total employee …

) 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 …

to underestimate of the rates of growth of real GDP, real personal income, and productivity. That underestimation is … recent slowdown in measured productivity but that subject is discussed briefly …

and labor productivity are all linked to factor endowments, to one where (endogenous) productivity change embedded in … Spain, a country which had relatively poor productivity growth in agriculture and low living standards prior to 1800, was a … productivity after 1898 …

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