(NAIRU) by using information contained in the trend of productivity growth. My approach enhances the recently proposed model … to alternativestatistical assumptions. In economic terms, the productivity-augmented model generates a more realistic … productivity growth trend. I find support for the "level" hypothesis in both the US and international data. …

assumed that this may foster economic productivity and growth, but there may also be negative effects, i.e. problems due to …

The paper addresses the topic of an overall long-term productivity slowdown in labor productivity for a panel of 25 …-term productivity trends using state-space approaches, we extract a common factor from these long-term trend series using factor … analysis. The country specific differences are only of second order importance. Dominant is an overall long-term productivity …