development of firm-level micro-data bases, the revival of the vintage capital or embodiment approach to productivity analysis … of productivity research. Key recent developments in productivity analysis, as evidenced by the volume, include the …

research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German … academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the … research grants. We then go on to investigate the persistence of individual productivity. The Persistence issue is of special …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a thorough discussion of the definitional and data issues associated with the … measurement of aggregate labour productivity growth in Canada and the United States. The paper examines all data sources for …