the bulk of productivity gains in the United States …

structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first …

role of total factor productivity (TFP) gaps as opposed to factor accumulation. Nevertheless, it is a widely held belief … direct contribution of factors of production. -- Development accounting ; total factor productivity ; technology …

An influential hypothesis explaining the persistence of global productivity differences is that frontier technologies … global diffusion, adoption, and productivity consequences of agricultural technology. Our empirical design uses differences … frontier reduces global productivity by 50% and increases cross-country dispersion in log productivity by 15% relative to a …