adjust traditional measures of multi factor productivity growth for variations in short-run utilization …

model in which technical advances are embodied in new capital, investment will translate directly into productivity gains … growth than the sum of the contributions of parent and affiliate employment, and materials; (2) productivity has boomed since … 1992, due to productivity growth in MNCs with Canadian affiliates; (3) the investment elasticity of productivity growth is …

This paper presents a new approach to assess the role of price mismeasurement in the productivity slowdown. I invert … the firm's investment decision to identify the embodied and disembodied components of productivity growth. With a Cobb … that in the Post-War period, disembodied productivity grew faster in the hard-to-measure than in the non-manufacturing easy …

productivity growth. The two major methods used in measuring productivity growth -- index number and econometric estimation …, infrastructure capital, allocative distortions, nature of the market structure and technological advancement on productivity growth … estimate the contribution of different inputs to productivity growth are described and the evaluation of the production process …

productivity of women is less than that of men, but not by enough to fully explain the gap in wages, a result that is consistent … that both the wage and productivity profiles are rising but concave to the origin (consistent with profiles quadratic in … age), but the estimated relative wage profile is steeper than the relative productivity profile, consistent with models of …

Explanations of procyclical productivity play a key role in a variety of business-cycle models. Most of these models … aggregate productivity changes into several terms, each of which has an economic interpretation. However, many of these terms …

allow for investment in physical capital and aggregate fluctuations. In the aftermath of a positive productivity shock, the … common productivity component reverts to its unconditional mean, the new entrants that survive become more productive over …

capital. This article discusses theory and evidence that suggest that this standard model is too simple to capture the labor …

of international patents, country-level R&D productivity increases proportionally with the stock of ideas already …). Second, we find that ideas productivity in a given country is constant or declining in the worldwide stock of ideas. Ideas … effects of international knowledge spillovers. Finally, ideas productivity is concave in the size of the R&D workforce and the …