temporary cut in corporate income tax rates leads to a long-lasting increase in innovation and productivity, whereas changes in …

In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U …

-sectional distributions of technological productivity are well-approximated either by the lognormal, Weibull, or a novel “CES … convergence of the true technological productivity distribution to the theoretical limit with n …

We analyze the effect of ICT and R&D on total factor productivity (TFP) growth across different industries in Sweden. R …

occurrence. Eventually, we relate productivity and innovation slowdowns deriving tables of trends co-movements, weighted by input …A growing number of studies identify a generalized slowdown in labor productivity growth. The very existence of the … of the observed trends. We posit that the composition of aggregate productivity matters. In a nutshell, we make the …

This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly … explained by intra-industry changes during the import substitution period. Second, we show that this productivity increase has …

technological progress is much more evenly distributed across sectors than TFP. -- Total Factor Productivity ; Generalized Malmquist … Productivity Index ; sectoral technical change …

This paper employs a nonparametric approach to investigate the sources of growth in labor productivity for 77 countries … and to decompose it in the following three components: (1) total factor productivity; (2) capital deepening; and (3 …