is highly disaggregated at the industry level with an input-output network structure. Measured productivity in the model …-specific, uncorrelated across industries. The bulk of the aggregate fluctuations, including those in aggregate measured productivity, are … data. Our second finding is that about half of the decrease in the cyclicality of measured productivity in the U.S. after …

. Furthermore, investment-specific productivity shocks drove nearly half of the rapid growth in household durable expenditures …

Labor productivity (LP) in the United States has gone from being procyclical to acyclical since the mid-1980s. Using … industry-level data, this paper first shows that total factor productivity (TFP), which is LP net of capital deepening, has … reasons for the change in the cyclicality of productivity. By decomposing TFP into technical change and input utilization, it …

This paper examines the effects of expansionary technology shocks (shocks that increase labor productivity and factor … inputs) as opposed to contractionary technology shocks (shocks that increase labor productivity, but decrease factor inputs … productivity and production inputs. In addition, these shocks trigger different reactions of certain variables, which can help …

measurement of labor input as well as determining the effect of productivity shocks on labor, but a number of questions remain. As … for measurement, the issue of schooling needs further work. As for calculating the long-run impact of labor productivity …-term identification delivers more reasonable results. -- technological progress ; business cycles ; hours worked ; labor productivity …

productivity of the rest of the economy …

measurement of labor input as well as determining the effect of productivity shocks on labor, but a number of questions remain. As … for measurement, the issue of schooling needs further work. As for calculating the long-run impact of labor productivity …

Total Factor Productivity (TFP) explains around a 70% of the business cycle fluctuations , yet its traditional …