constructs measures of relative total factor productivity for eleven Japanese manufacturingindustries and uses dynamic panel data … methods to test whether a smaller productivity gap leadsto slower growth, and whether R&D takes over as the engine of growth … as Japan approaches thetechnological frontier. The results suggest that Japanese and US productivity have been growingat …

Recent research on international productivity comparisons has focused on the discrepancies between benchmark … productivity lead of 50 percent, evidence that they therefore discard. The present paper revisits this Anglo-German productivity … Germany’s industrial production series. I also calculate a revised 1907 productivity benchmark. Both the revised extrapolation …

This paper examines patterns of structural change and labour productivity growth in the late nineteenth … capital growth, it seeks to address three questions: First, what was the role of labour productivity growth in per capita … labour productivity growth in Austria-Hungary as compared to Germany? The paper argues that, in contrast to the Hungarian …

This paper uses new micro-level US data to re-examine productivity leadership in cotton spinning c. 1900. We find that … productivity leader for almost every type of yarn. This is true both for the operation of a given machinery type, and when … comparing machinery typical in each country. Higher capital and labour productivity rates imply that Lancashire’s combination of …

theheart of this interpretation is the observation that improvements in productivity aregenerated by the expansion of trade … andintensification of trade as the only route to sustained productivity and output growth.[...] …

This paper revisits the issue of the productivity performance of pre-World War I Britain’s railway system with an … it stabilized at about 1.1%. An analysis of company-level productivity rejects the claims that there was a regulation …-induced revival of productivity performance in the railway sector after 1900 but, on the other hand, it supports the claim that there …

incentives, where individual effort imposes a negative externality on others,to their productivity under piece rates, where it … does not. We find that the productivity of theaverage worker is at least 50 percent higher under piece rates than under … workers does not affect productivity. Further analysis reveals thatworkers internalize the externality only when they can …