area GDP per capita. Second, we develop measures of human capital that reflect the types of knowledge within U ….S. metropolitan areas. Regional knowledge stocks related to the provision of producer services and information technology are …

variance of its components, which is then applied to measure the relative contributions of productivity, hours per worker, and … employment to cyclical output growth across a panel of countries. Measured productivity contributes more to the cycle in Europe …

characterized by far less mobility and opportunity. While we recognize the potential explanations of reduced productivity and age …

New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited … commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that … "knowledge filter" between new knowledge and economic knowledge and identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the …

facilitate the diffusion of knowledge generated in academic research towards its successful application by companies on markets …

impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in … productivity can be overwhelmed by even subtle changes in the traffic mix. After controlling for endogenous changes in the … data, 1982-1997, with observed productivity changes much more likely due to changes in speed limits and the dimensions of …

labour-productivity growth in the US and larger countries of the EU. The continental West-European countries show a … from intangibles, and also larger multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth rates related to the restructuring of those …

US labor productivity in ICT-skill intensive industries experienced tremendousincreases in post-1995 trend growth … thesource of industry productivity growth in German ICT-skill intensive sectors, there is noempirical evidence on the influence … Transport, were found to haveexperienced strong productivity growth via ICT-skill complementarities. These findingsshed light on …

This paper examines the link between information technology (IT) and the U.S. productivity revival in the late 1990s …. Industry-level data show a broad productivity resurgence that reflects both the production and the use of IT. The most IT …-intensive industries experienced significantly larger productivity gains than other industries and a wide variety of econometric tests show …

Economists, business analysts, and policymakers have all focused considerable attention on U.S. productivity growth in … recent years. This paper presents a broad overview of productivity …