, the growing use of intermediates imported from China has contributed to the productivity growth within the manufacturing … production processes of 22 high-income countries. Using China’s productivity as the exogenous variation, the main result – based … average, lead to an increase in productivity by 0.65 per cent among high-income countries, and by 0.40 per cent in the US …

impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in … productivity can be overwhelmed by even subtle changes in the traffic mix. After controlling for endogenous changes in the … data, 1982-1997, with observed productivity changes much more likely due to changes in speed limits and the dimensions of …

. Following Baumol's cost disease hypothesis, (unexplained) productivity differentials between the industrial and service sectors … are often utilized to explain the recent dominance of the service sector. We hypothesize that the productivity … productivity and variables from our model representing the technological substitution conditions. Our findings support this …