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 …

The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro … levels. They focus primarily on papers written about Canada, but also draw on selected studies from other countries …, especially the United States, where such work sheds important light on particular aspects of productivity growth. The authors …