firm survey from the 1840s, we shed light on the mechanism: upper-tail knowledge raised productivity in innovative … industrial technology …

unravel. Third, I model the endogenous determination of technology or organizational form that results from firms' tailoring … heterogeneity, the more flexible and wage-disequalizing is the equilibrium technology. Moreover, firms' choices tend to generate … excessive flexibility, resulting in suboptimal growth or even self-sustaining technology-inequality traps. Fourth, I examine how …

innovation will be required to preserve past productivity gains in the face of climate change, coevolving pests and diseases, and … changing technological regulations--let alone increase productivity. Great potential exists for innovation in crop and …U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …

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

persistence of productivity growth differentials between nations despite a common technology, constant returns to scale and … specification. The source of productivity (growth) differentials in our model is the existence of a non-traded capital good ('human … consider the influence on productivity growth differentials of private thrift, public debt, the taxation of capital and savings …

-up mechanism through capital accumulation where technology is embodied in new capital goods. Using a putty-clay model of production …, including persistently high but declining rates of labor and total-factor productivity growth, a U-shaped response of the …

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …

We measure the impact of a drastic new technology for producing steel - the minimill - on the aggregate productivity of … industry's productivity is linked to this new technology, and operates through two distinct mechanisms. First, minimills … displaced the older technology, called vertically integrated production, and this reallocation of output was responsible for a …

. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological …