rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

agricultural production at both the production and productivity. The United States are characterized as highlighted in the …. To this refers mainly to differences in Total Factor Productivity (TFP). Found that in both countries had higher TFP …, does not mean that Brazil is close to the rate of U.S. productivity, because the productive structure is particular in each …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

This paper examines Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and knowledge flows, using international patent data. The result is …-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …

This paper examines Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and knowledge flows, using international patent data. The result is …-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …

This paper analyzes the contribution of network externalities to the pickup in U.S. productivity in the early 2000s …. The Internet and wireless communication are treated as the central mechanisms of ICT-driven productivity growth. The … approach contrasts with the dominant view in the macro-productivity literature, which places microprocessor speed and …

This paper compares long-run growth in labour productivity in Canada and the United States from 1961 to 2006. Over the … entire period labour productivity in both countries grew at about the same rate. But Canadian growth exceeded that of the … United States up to the early 1980s. Since then, U.S. labour productivity growth has exceeded Canadian growth. The gap has …

productivity growth in the mid-1990s. This paper traces the evolution of productivity estimates to document how and when this … of the late 1990s that this investment and underlying productivity increases in the IT-producing sectors were identified … that private sector productivity growth will average around 2.5 percent per year for the next decade, a pace that is only …

This paper considers the productivity impact on the U.S. economy of the period of war mobilization and demobilization … D as the basis for asserting a substantial positive effect of military conflict on potential output. Productivity data …

This chapter presents the major results of a comparative study of productivity growth in manufacturing in Japan and the … growth of productivity there has been extraordinary despite a less than favorable economic environment and because the U ….S. and Japanese productivity growth experiences over the past fifteen years or so lie at opposite ends of the spectrum of …