s differed from its predecessors in three important respects: productivity, inflation, and cyclical variability. In the … United States, labor productivity increased much faster in the 1990s than in the previous decades and, contrary to the usual … pattern, accelerated with the duration of the expansion. The view that most of the productivity acceleration was only cyclical …

Is the internet a big deal? -- Why productivity is so important -- Productivity and the internet: what lies ahead …

accelerated productivity growth, the key driver of the new economy. With the license of a survey paper I have not tried to tell a … productivity growth is very short-a mere five years. The Economic Report of the President in January 2001 described the uncertainty … involved: "The fact of a shift in the trend of structural productivity growth does not tell us how permanent that shift will …

actually has exerted lasting positive effects on productivity - not only in the United States, but also worldwide. -- Inspired … intensity and effects of e-business. Finally, the influence of different methods of price measurement on productivity was … analysed, since this is important for international comparisons of total factor productivity. The study culminates in a growth …