productivity database, we developed a general system to manage data. The paper describes this system and then applies it by …"This paper is an exploration in the relative performance and sources of productivity growth of U.S. private businesses … building such a database. The paper presents updated estimates of gross output, intermediate input use, and value added using …

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 …

hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in the dispersion of wages and productivity has occurred across … establishments and these changes are linked. Second, that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across establishments is …-plant measures of wage and productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades; and (4) a significant …