We compute rates of growth in labor productivity during the 1973-80 period for samples of individual manufacturing … contribution of such expenditures to productivity growth was about the same in both countries. Hence, the rather large differences … on the observed rates of productivity growth between the two countries can not be accounted for by differences in either …

privately financed as a fraction of total). The results indicate that R&D continued to contribute to productivity growth in U … that while federally financed R&D expenditures did have a positive effect on measured productivity growth of these firms …

This paper compares and analyzes the growth of productivity in the manufacturing industries and firms in France and the … U.S. based on newly assembled comparable data sets in both countries. Three explanations of the recent productivity … of R&D investment, and found not to bear on the differences in productivity growth between and within the two countries …

This paper presents the results of a study of productivity growth and R&D in the 1970s using data on narrowly defined … the recent past. The results suggest a significant relationship between R&D and the growth of productivity; in versions … using total factor productivity as the dependent variable, the estimated rate of return to R&D investment is about 20 …

productivity (TFP) at the industry level during the period extending from the early 1960's to the mid-1970's. The data base …-Penn-SRI manufacturing data file. A hypothesis suggested by previous research on the R&D-productivity relationship is that, due, perhaps, to … recent years. Our findings indicate, however, that the relationship between an industry's R&D-intensity and its productivity …

between firm productivity and the level of its R&D invespments. In the time dimension, using deviations from fire means as … the lag structure of the effects of R&D on productivity. These effects are apparently highly variable, both in timing and …

The question I shall address in this pa-per is: Can the slowdown in productivity growth be explained, wholly or in part …) What is to be explained? Which productivity and what slowdown? 2) What is the mechanism by which R&D could have contributed …