Multifactor productivity growth in the U.S. economy between 1919 and 1929 was almost entirely attributable to advance … manufacturing productivity. The sector contributed 83 percent of the 2.02 percent per year overall advance in the private nonfarm … IT with the portion of capital deepening's effect on labor productivity associated with the accumulation of specific IT …

, help provide answers to the latter question. A persisting productivity windfall associated with the build out of the …

accumulation, a surge in hours worked, and faster growth of total factor productivity. The acceleration of productivity growth …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in … economies? The paper develops a new comparative data set on the usage of electricity in the manufacturing sectors of the USA …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many …

value is not reflected in measured growth and productivity. To capture the contribution of the "free" Internet, we model the … transaction at production cost. When we incorporate this implicit transaction into U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), productivity …

Texas, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada had they not joined the USA. We show that the … growth paths of Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Philippines and Greenland in the scenario where they joined the USA at times in … institutional quality of the USA as a whole matches the quality predicted for New England most closely. This suggests that upon …