regulation, rather than changes in productivity and trade, account for most of the emissions reductions …

The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the … descriptive analysis of mobility for the famine-era Irish sons indicates that more Catholic surnames and birth in Ireland were … decline in the observable human capital of famine-era Irish migrants compared to pre-famine Irish migrants and to other groups …

productivity of the targeted industries and regions grew significantly faster than those of non-targeted ones. While the plant …-level total factor productivity also grew faster in targeted industries and regions, the misallocation of resources within them … got significantly worse, especially among the entrants, so that the total factor productivity at the industry-region level …

According to unpublished data compiled by BLS, productivity in the construction industry reached a peak in 1968 and … this productivity decline between 1968 and 1978 by estimating a production function to assign weights to various factors … responsible for productivity change and deriving a new price deflator for construction which does not rely on labor or material …

The present study analyzes the "productivity slowdown" of the 1970s. The study also develops a new data set … -- industrial data available back to 1948 -- as well as a new set of tools for decomposing changes in productivity growth. The major … result of this study is that the productivity slowdown of the 1970s has survived three decades of scrutiny, conceptual …

A statistical agency faces several challenges in building Productivity Accounts. What started out as a request for … simple ratios of output to employment has moved to a demand for multifactor (total factor) productivity measures that take … productivity measurement. International comparisons of GDP have benefited immensely by the development of international standards …

The U.S. has been experiencing a slowdown in measured labor productivity growth since 2004. A number of commentators … challenges to this "mismeasurement hypothesis." First, the productivity slowdown has occurred in dozens of countries, and its … output" resulting from the productivity growth slowdown. The largest--by some distance--is less than one-third of the …