understatement of input growth in manufacturing, and thus. overstatement of growth in productivity. GNP, and value-added in …) improvement in measured manufacturing productivity growth can be attributed to an increase in the rate of foreign and domestic … outsource is unrelated to its acceleration in productivity. In auditing the industry numbers, we found that a non …

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 …

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 …

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 …