Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined …

from country industry variation in the adoption of robots. Our model also implies that the productivity implications of … aging are ambiguous when technology responds to demographic change, but we should expect productivity to increase and labor …

impacts upon technological progress and thereby also on productivity growth. The empirical results clearly confirm the … detrimental to economic prosperity, at least as far as technological progress and productivity growth are concerned. …